Salivary cortisol responses to mental stress are associated with coronary artery calcification in healthy men and women

European Heart Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 424-429

  Hamer, Mark ^a   O'Donnell, Katie ^a   Lahiri, Avijit ^b   Steptoe, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron beam computed tomography; HPA axis; Mental stress; Psychophysiology; Sub clinical atherosclerosis

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE MARKER; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77249167163     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp386     Document Type: Article

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