Table 5.

Biochemical correlations

		Albumin	Random morning Cortisol	Cortrosyn stimulation test: cortisol level			Cholesterol
				Baseline	30 min	60 min	Total	HDL	LDLcal
Albumin		1	−0.26†	−0.26	0.06	0.06	0.45	0.46	0.39
			<0.001	<0.001	0.40	0.20	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
			303	264	204	450	114	111	107
Random morning Cortisol a			1	0.68	0.40	0.40	−0.22	−0.22	−0.18
				<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.04	0.04	0.11
				200	151	305	90	89	86
Conrtrosyn stimulation test cortisol level	Baseline			1	0.68	0.52	−0.22	−0.11	−0.20
					<0.001	<0.001	0.04	0.31	0.07
					150	305	85	83	82
	30 min				1	0.9	0.07	−0.03	0.14
						<0.001	0.55	0.83	0.27
						189	65	64	62
	60 min					1	0.06	0.07	0.09
							0.45	0.44	0.29
							139	137	133

Data analyzed with Pearson (Albumin and random morning Cortisol) or Spearman correlation coefficients (other correlations), results presented in 3 values: upper, coefficient; middle, p value; bottom, number of inpatients.

^†In a regression model, adrenal-cortisol insufficiency and adrenal-cortisol sufficiency groups were similar,interaction p=0.17

b, Cortrosyn stimulation test, serum cortisol levels were taken at baseline, 30 and 60 minutes after cortrosyn (250 μg) injection; HDL, high density lipoprotein; LDL_cal, calculated low density lipoprotein