Adrenal insufficiency common in people with HIV, often unrecognised

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Adrenal insufficiency – a reduced ability to produce cortisol and other hormones critical for regulating many bodily processes – is common in people with HIV or tuberculosis and needs to be considered as the cause of a host of symptoms, researchers from Uganda report in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

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