Chronic stress, visceral obesity and gonadal dysfunction

Hormones

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 287-293

  Kyrou, Ioannis ^a,b   Tsigos, Constantine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal obesity; Adipokines; Gonads; Hypogonadism; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Obesity; Sex steroids; Stress

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; ARGIPRESSIN; BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NORADRENALIN; OXYTOCIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTIRELIN; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANOVULATION; BODY MASS; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC STRESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EARLY MENOPAUSE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GONAD DYSFUNCTION; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INFERTILITY; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIBIDO; LIPID STORAGE; LOCUS CERULEUS; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; METABOLIC DISORDER; NATURAL SELECTION; OBESITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; WEIGHT GAIN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; GONADAL DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

CHRONIC DISEASE; GONADAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 60549103050     PISSN: 11093099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.1209     Document Type: Review

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