ACTH stimulated adrenocortical function in obese women: a gas chromatographic study
Journals Frontiers in Bioscience-Elite Frontiers in Bioscience-Scholar Frontiers in …

with Different Body Fat Distribution Page 1 Original Clinical 133 Secretion of Major Adrenal
And rogens Following ACTH Administration in Obese Women with Different Body Fat …

Background The ACTH–cortisol axis in women is activated and associated with decreased
ACTH potency, estimated by relating ACTH and cortisol pulse masses. Recently, a new …

Objective Alterations in adrenocortical biosynthesis, as measured by the steroid response to
acute adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) stimulation, have frequently been reported in …

The authors report the hormonologic characteristics of 20 obese and hirsute women meeting
the criteria for adrenaltype hyperandrogenism, suppressible by dexamethasone, without …

It is noted that because of its rapidly increasing incidence and of severe complications
leading to high morbidity and mortality rates, obesity has become a major public health …

Context: The pituitary-adrenal ensemble of obese humans is marked by increased urinary
excretion of cortisol and its metabolites in the face of normal circulating cortisol levels. For …

BACKGROUND Abdominal obesity is associated with hyper‐responsiveness of the
hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenocortical (HPA) axis to stimulatory neuropeptides and to stress …

African American women have a greater prevalence of obesity than Caucasian women, but
the reasons for this difference are not known. We have investigated whether activity of the …

OBJECTIVE There is emerging evidence that women with visceral obesity may have hyper‐
responsiveness of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis. There are no studies on basal …