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Overview: Thomas Addison first described the clinical presentation of primary adrenocortical insufficiency (Addison disease) in 1855 in his classic paper, On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Supra-Renal Capsules.1Recent studiesWhite and Arlt examined ...

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SusanS_Health Susan Scroggins

Addison disease is adrenocortical insufficiency due to the destruction or dysfunction of the entire adrenal cortex. http://bit.ly/bQXedg

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