Increased saliva cortisol awakening response in patients with mild cognitive impairment

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 389-395

  Lind, Karin ^a   Edman, Åke ^a   Nordlund, Arto ^a   Olsson, Tommy ^b   Wallin, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Cortisol awakening response; Dementia; Dexamethasone; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Mild cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; REFERENCE VALUES; SALIVA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 35648957810     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109938     Document Type: Article

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