Stress hyperglycaemia in critically ill patients: potential role of incretin hormones; a preliminary study.

Background: Stress hyperglycaemia is common in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting and has been related to a worst outcome.

Objective: The objective was to characterize the association of glucoregulatory hormones, mainly incretins, with the levels of glycaemia, and its relationship with outcome in ICU patients.

Methods: We prospectively studied 60 patients.

Response to the high-dose corticotrophin stimulation test depends on plasma adrenocotropin hormone levels in septic shock.

Purpose: The use of the high-dose corticotrophin stimulation test (HDCST) as a guide to use low-dose steroid therapy in septic shock is controversial. The adrenocotropin hormone (ACTH) constitutes the immediate stimuli to produce cortisol. We evaluated the correlation of the response to the HDCST with plasma ACTH levels in patients with septic shock.

[The journal of the Spanish Society of Microbiology, 1945-1995].

The official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology (SEM) was first published in 1947, under the name Microbiología Española. Until 1984 the journal was published by the SEM jointly with the Institute <> (from the National Research Council, CSIC). In 1985 SEM started by itself to publish a new journal named Microbiología SEM, which may be considered the continuation of the former.