Religious service attendance and allostatic load among high-functioning elderly

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 464-472

  Maselko, Joanna ^a   Kubzansky, Laura ^b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^b   Seeman, Teresa ^c   Berkman, Lisa ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Allostatic load; Gender; Physiological dysregulation; Religious activity; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CHOLESTEROL; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INCOME; MALE; MARRIAGE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RELIGION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URINALYSIS; WAIST HIP RATIO;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LIPIDS; MALE; SPIRITUALITY; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 34250831489     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31806c7c57     Document Type: Article

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