INDIAN PEDIATRICS 843 VOLUME 42AUGUST 17, 2005 We read with interest the brief report entitled “Assessment of adrenal endocrine function in Asian Thalassemics”(1). A large number of children in India undergo long term transfusions and are therefore at risk of hypothalamo-pituitary dysfunction. The paper makes an important observation of detecting biochemical evidence of adrenal hypofunction in ...