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  • Title: DST in chronic pain patients not suffering from major depression.
    Author: Magni G, Talamo Rossi R, Stella A, Mottaran R, Salar G.
    Journal: Pharmacopsychiatry; 1989 Jan; 22(1):8-10. PubMed ID: 2710810.
    Abstract:
    The relationship between chronic pain and depression is complex, and nonorganic chronic pain has been hypothesised (at least in some cases) as the expression of an underlying affective disturbance. Postdexamethasone cortisol nonsuppression was assessed in two groups of patients with chronic organic (n = 43) and nonorganic (n = 20) pain, none of them suffering from a major depressive disorder. Non-suppression occurred in 16.3% of the organic group and 20% of the nonorganic one. No difference emerged between the two groups for mean postdexamethasone cortisol values. The DST test results did not suggest the existence of a close relationship between chronic pain and major depressive disorder; however, a wider relationship between chronic pain and affective disturbances, at least in a subgroup of patients, cannot be ruled out.
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