Study	Reason for exclusion
Bessho 1984	HPA axis was not examined.
Birkebaek 1998	No data on intervention (dose, duration, methods of cessation of glucocorticoid therapy) No data on cutoff limits of HPA axis function tests No accurate data on follow‐up period Data on children without cranial irradiation not reported separately
Felder‐Puig 2007	HPA axis function was examined only during glucocorticoid treatment.
Felner 2011	No clinical study (but a response to the article of Vestergaard 2011)
Lightner 1981	Children received cranial irradiation.
Pawlaczyk 1993	Children received cranial irradiation.
Silva 2006	Double publication of Cunha 2004
Vestergaard 2011	Some of the included children received cranial irradiation. Data on children without cranial irradiation were not reported separately.

HPA: hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal.