the change in baseline plasma cortisol is monitored
treat:
on occasion, an underactive adrenal cortex that is not producing enough corticosteroid
rarely, to treat inflammatory disorders rather than using exogenous glucocorticoids which would otherwise have deliterious catabolic side effects; this may be important in children
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