Ten-year follow-up study of cortisol levels in aging Holocaust survivors with and without PTSD

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 757-761

  Yehuda, Rachel ^a   Morris, Adam ^a   Labinsky, Ellen ^a   Zemelman, Shelly ^a   Schmeidler, James ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 34748829049     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20228     Document Type: Article

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