Attenuation of maternal psychophysiological stress responses and the maternal cortisol awakening response over the course of human pregnancy

Stress

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 258-268

  Entringer, Sonja ^a   Buss, Claudia ^a   Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A ^b   Cammack, Alison L ^a,c   Yim, Ilona S ^d   Chicz Demet, Aleksandra ^a   Sandman, Curt A ^a   Wadhwa, Pathik D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortisol awakening response (CAR) or rise; Heart rate; Mean arterial pressure; Pregnancy; Psychosocial stress; Trier Social Stress Test (TSST)

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL STRESS; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL STRESS;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LINEAR MODELS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951027775     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890903349501     Document Type: Article

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