Adrenocorticotropic Hormone: What Affects The Test
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What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Taking medicine, such as corticosteroids and medicines that act like cortisol or cause the release of cortisol, including amphetamines, lithium carbonate, and insulin.
- Being drunk (intoxicated).
- Being pregnant or having your period.
- Having a severe injury.
- Physical or emotional stress.
- Having a medical test that uses a radioactive tracer within 1 week before an ACTH test.
There are other medicines that may affect the test results, so talk with your doctor about any medicines you are taking.
| Last updated: | June 26, 2008 |
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| Author: | Bets Davis, MFA |
| Reviewed By: | Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine, David C.W. Lau, MD, PhD, FRCPC - Endocrinology & Metabolism |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer |
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