Relationships between the pituitary-adrenal hormones, insulin, and glucose in middle-aged men: Moderating influence of psychosocial stress

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1440-1449

  Keltikangas Järvinen, Liisa ^a   Ravaja, Niklas ^a   Räikkönen, Katri ^a   Hautanen, Aarno ^a   Adlercreutz, Herman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INSULIN RELEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

EID: 0031673217     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-0495(98)90067-1     Document Type: Article

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