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Introduction Systemic infection leading to sepsis contributes to a major portion of patients seeking care in the emergency department (ED) and the intensive care unit (ICU) ( 1 , 2 ). Sepsis has been defined as life-threatening organ
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pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, and fatigue, which can be misdiagnosed as an infection or sepsis ( 1 , 2 ). Adrenal crisis-associated mortality is 6% ( 1 ). The incidence of adrenal crisis in patients with primary and secondary adrenal insufficiency is
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been shown that administration of a recombinant form of this hormone in obese mice and diabetic monkeys improves insulin sensitivity, body weight, and lipid profile (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14) . Sepsis represents a continuum beginning with a host
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mortality) or 3- to 6-month mortality, risk of hypoglycemia, sepsis and new need for dialysis. Trials that did not include the above mentioned outcomes or have sufficient data to calculate effect estimates were excluded from meta-analysis. Three
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), late-onset sepsis (LOS), bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), and more often require invasive respiratory support ( 2 , 4 , 5 ), than females. In childhood, male preterm infants had a greater odds of (major and minor
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infection, sepsis, pneumonia and urinary infection), acute kidney injury, atrial fibrillation and myocardial infarction. Furthermore, tight glucose control was grouped into two intensities: very tight glucose control (upper level of perioperative glucose
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including bacteremia and sepsis ( 2 , 3 , 4 ) and in inflammatory liver diseases ( 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ). In vitro , lipopolysaccharide (LPS, endotoxin) induces ectodomain shedding of sCD163 by TLR-4 stimulation of the metalloproteinase TACE ( 9 ). LPS is a
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response, is a significant health risk for affected children during acute febrile illness and may lead to increased morbidity and mortality ( 3 , 6 ). Glucocorticoid replacement regimens during stress episodes, for example, during infection and sepsis
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). Vitamin D deficiency has been shown to be associated with sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute kidney injury ( 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ) and three different meta-analyses confirm that patients with low vitamin D status have a longer ICU stay
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trauma, inflammation and or sepsis ( 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ). However, sequence homology between glucagon and GLP-1, close resemblance to other circulating proglucagon-derived peptides, and the fact that they circulate in low (picomolar