Do stress reactions cause abdominal obesity and comorbidities?

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 73-86

  Bjorntorp P ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adrenals; Central; Cortisol; Leptin; Neuropeptide Y; Obesity; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ABDOMEN; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEWBORN; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STRESS;

ABDOMEN; ADRENAL GLANDS; COMORBIDITY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; OBESITY; PITUITARY GLAND; STRESS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0035342367     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-789x.2001.00027.x     Document Type: Article

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