Free and total cortisol levels as predictors of severity and outcome in community-acquired pneumonia.

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Published in Am J Respir Crit Care Med on August 16, 2007

Authors

Mirjam Christ-Crain1, Daiana Stolz, Sukhdeep Jutla, Orestes Couppis, Christian Müller, Roland Bingisser, Philipp Schuetz, Michael Tamm, Ray Edwards, Beat Müller, Ashley B Grossman

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom. m.christ-crain@unibas.ch

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