Cortisol secretary pattern and glucocorticoid feedback sensitivity in women from a Mediterranean area: Relationship with anthropometric characteristics, dietary intake and plasma fatty acid profile

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 185-191

  Garcia Prieto M D ^a   Tebar F J ^b   Nicolas F ^b   Larque E ^a   Zamora, S ^a   Garaulet, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; FATTY ACID; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SATURATED FATTY ACID;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DIETARY INTAKE; FAT CONTENT; FAT INTAKE; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEXAMETHASONE; DIETARY FATS; FATTY ACIDS; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LIPID METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; SALIVA; SECRETORY RATE; SPAIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33846216903     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2006.02705.x     Document Type: Article

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