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Table 3 Patients who visited hospital before admission or were admitted while under GC-related medication

From: Clinical characteristics of adrenal crisis in adult population with and without predisposing chronic adrenal insufficiency: a retrospective cohort study

  

Primary AI

Central AI

Others

ALL

  

(N = 23)

(N = 136)

(N = 345)

(n = 504)

Visited before admission

Yes

18 (78.3)

108 (79.4)

258 (74.8)

384 (76.2)

Yes, within 90 days before

15 (65.2)

98 (72.1)

224 (64.9)

337 (66.9)

Yes, within 14 days before

11 (47.8)

69 (50.7)

161 (46.7)

241 (47.8)

Under GC-related medication

Oral GC

5 (21.7)

31 (22.8)

68 (19.7)

104 (20.6)

HC equivalent daily dosage (mg)

15 (10–20)

20 (10–22.5)

20 (20–40)

20 (10–40)

Median [IQR]

    

Intranasal GC

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

Inhaled GC

0 (0.0)

1 (0.7)

14 (4.1)

15 (3.0)

Drug that interacts with GC

2 (8.7)

3 (2.2)

8 (2.3)

13 (2.6)

  1. Abbreviations: IQR Interquartile range, HC hydrocortisone, GC glucocorticoid