Plasma cortisol suppression response in the South African
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Results of a plasma cortisol suppression test have never been reported in a Black glaucoma population, although there have been reports of tests carried out on glaucomatous patients generally. The results have varied from marked suppression in glaucomatous patients (Becker, Podos, Assef, and Cooper, 1973; Rosenberg and Levene, 1974) to no suppression at all (Schwartz and Levene, 1972). Glaucoma of all types is prevalent in the South African Bantu (Luntz, i973). All the patients in this study were seen at the Glaucoma Clinic, St John Eye Hospital, Baragwanath.
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