the guideline algorithm recommends two of three positive tests — 24-hour free urine cortisol, late midnight salivary cortisol level and 1 mg dexamethasone suppression test, or DST — for ...

A dexamethasone suppression test is primarily used to help diagnose Cushing syndrome. Cushing syndrome indicates that you have an abnormally high level of cortisol. Cortisol is a steroid hormone ...

So doctors typically do more than one test to make sure you have it. One of those tests has a mouthful of a name -- it’s an “overnight dexamethasone suppression test.” It can help you learn ...

ONE of the most widely employed tests in clinical endocrinology is the dexamethasone suppression test. The applications of this test fall into two broad classes. First of all, it helps distinguish ...

The paper by Linn and his colleagues on "failure" of dexamethasone suppression in Cushing's disease can be viewed in proper perspective if one recalls a comment attributed to the prominent ...