Associations between anthropometrical measurements, body composition, single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the hypothalamus/pituitary/adrenal (HPA) axis and HPA axis functioning

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 679-686

  Rutters, Femke ^a   Nieuwenhuizen, Arie G ^a   Lemmens, Sofie G T ^a   Bouwman, Freek ^a   Mariman, Edwin ^a   Westerterp Plantenga, Margriet S ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DILUTION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDRODENSITOMETRY; HYPOTHALAMUS PITUITARY ADRENAL AXIS; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; DEXAMETHASONE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAIST-HIP RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955800745     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.03985.x     Document Type: Article

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