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Glucocorticoids are powerful anti-inflammatory drugs that must be used carefully to avoid serious side effects.

The document concludes that sex hormones and related compounds have various effects on health, with both potential benefits and risks.

The conclusion is that certain physical signs in the body can indicate past acute and chronic stress, which may help in child abuse investigations.

Giving selenium yeast to pregnant goats leads to better hair growth and cashmere quality in their babies.

Feeding goats more during the non-growing period increases cashmere yield and length.

A patient produced cortisol after adrenalectomy, possibly due to residual tissue or other body parts making steroids.

Mothers with lower stress during pregnancy but higher stress after birth had infants with lower development scores.

Blocking a specific enzyme might help treat obesity and diabetes, but more research is needed to ensure it's safe.

Women with PCOS have higher hair cortisol levels, which are linked to worse metabolic and inflammatory conditions.

Caffeine intake during pregnancy and lactation can cause skin lesions in mother rats and their babies, not linked to cortisol levels.

Women with androgenetic alopecia have normal levels of most blood steroids and binding proteins, but higher dehydroepiandrosterone. Some also have low "sex hormone-binding globulin" and "corticosteroide-binding globulin" capacity, and high "free androgen index" and "free cortisol index". Diane treatment can normalize these levels and improve hair conditions.

The conclusion is that hirsutism is strongly linked to PCOS and higher levels of certain hormones, but not to DHEAS, prolactin, cortisol, or TSH.

A cystic fibrosis patient developed Cushing's syndrome from a drug interaction between itraconazole and budesonide, which improved after stopping the medications.

High levels of male hormones are very common in women with PCOS and affect their metabolism differently depending on their weight.

Measuring 17-hydroxyprogesterone in hair can help monitor androgen levels in people with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

Hair loss led to the diagnosis of Cushing's disease in a patient, showing that hair loss can be a sign of hormonal disorders.

A cystic fibrosis patient developed Cushing's syndrome from a drug interaction between itraconazole and inhaled budesonide.

Precocious puberty can signal familial adenomatous polyposis.

A young girl's hyperandrogenism was caused by an adrenocortical adenoma, diagnosed and treated through detailed evaluations.

Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome have a higher chance of getting depressed.

A 13-year-old girl's masculine symptoms improved after surgery for a rare adrenal tumor that produced male hormones.

Stress hormone corticosterone blocks a growth factor to slow down hair stem cell activity and hair growth.

Most dogs with alopecia had higher than normal levels of certain hormones, but hair loss might not always be linked to these hormone changes.

Men with male-pattern baldness have higher levels of certain testosterone metabolites and may have more active androgen metabolism.

Low-dose spironolactone is safe and effective for treating hirsutism.

A woman developed Cushing syndrome and adrenal insufficiency from using fluticasone and ritonavir together.

ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome linked to metastatic cervical cancer is rare and has high risks.

Metastatic cervical cancer can cause rare, severe Cushing's syndrome with high risk of death.

A woman's cyclic Cushing syndrome was caused by a tumor in her adrenal gland that produced ACTH.

A 24-year-old woman had a rare ovarian tumor that caused male-pattern hair growth and was hard to diagnose and treat.