{"title":"Urinary free cortisol excretion in endogenously depressed and schizophrenic patients.","authors":"K Diebold, H Kick, G Schmidt","doi":"10.1159/000283899","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 8 endogenously depressed and 9 schizophrenic patients, the excretion of urinary free cortisol was measured. The endogenous depressives exhibited a significantly (p less than 0.01) higher excretion of free cortisol (X = 122 microgram/24 h or X = 68 microgram/24 h) when compared to schizophrenics. This finding, earlier reported by others, suggests a hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical activation in endogenously depressed patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":76382,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria clinica","volume":"14 1","pages":"43-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000283899","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychiatria clinica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000283899","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In 8 endogenously depressed and 9 schizophrenic patients, the excretion of urinary free cortisol was measured. The endogenous depressives exhibited a significantly (p less than 0.01) higher excretion of free cortisol (X = 122 microgram/24 h or X = 68 microgram/24 h) when compared to schizophrenics. This finding, earlier reported by others, suggests a hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical activation in endogenously depressed patients.