The Role of Blood Pressure, Cortisol, and Prolactine among Soldiers Injured in the 1991-1993 War in Croatia

Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 364-372

  Sivik, Tatjana ^a,e   Delimar, Domagoj ^b   Korenjak, Patricia ^c   Delimar, Natasa ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^c INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (Croatia)

^d Dept of Biometry ^*  (Croatia)

^e Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROATIA; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WAR;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROATIA; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MMPI; PROLACTIN; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0031242729     PISSN: 1053881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02688632     Document Type: Article

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