be valuable. Glucocorticoids are one of three groups of hormones (including mineralocorticoids and androgens) produced in the adrenal cortex, part of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA ...

Liddle syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by hyperactivity of the amiloride-sensitive sodium channel (ENaC) of the principal cell of the cortical collecting tubule. In 1963, Liddle ...

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of conditions that affect your child’s adrenal glands. Congenital means that your child had this at birth, and hyperplasia means that the glands are ...

Hormone replacement therapy remains the cornerstone – glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids for Addison’s disease, levothyroxine for hypothyroidism and insulin for type 1 diabetes. Some caution ...