Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: To assess whether patients on glucocorticoids understand how to manage their medication in the event of intercurrent illness.Background: Studies have shown that, after as little as two weeks of glucocorticoid treatment, 10% of patients have adrenal suppression and it can take one year or longer for adrenal function to recover. With 7 out of 1000 people in the general population prescribed glucocorticoids, there is a large group at risk of adrenal cr...