KROK 1 2009 – Question 87 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A middle-aged man went to a foreign country because he had been offered a job there. However he had been unemployed for quite a long time. What endocrine glands were exhausted most of all in this man?
- A. Seminal glands
- B. Thyroid gland
- C. Substernal gland
- D. Parathyroid glands
- E. Adrenal glands
Hint
Chronic psychological strain engages the stress response; ask which glands secrete its main effector hormones and so face the greatest sustained load.
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