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Glucocorticoid Receptor Density Correlates with Health Risk Factors and Insulin Resistance in Caucasian and African American Subjects
Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology & Diabetes, 08/01/2012
Islam A et al. – The results show that high risk health conditions, such as obesity and type–2 diabetes, may be associated with a form of hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis dysfunction, characterized by localized leukocyte glucocorticoid receptor over–expression.