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Fourteen depressed patients were given the dexamethasone and ACTH suppression tests. The results of 71% agreed, suggesting that in a subgroup of depressed patients dexamethasone resistance reflects a central rather than peripheral dysfunction of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
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