Familial longevity is marked by lower diurnal salivary cortisol levels: The Leiden longevity study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Noordam, Raymond ^a   Jansen, Steffy W M ^a   Akintola, Abimbola A ^a   Oei, Nicole Y L ^a,b   Maier, Andrea B ^a,c   Pijl, Hanno ^a   Slagboom, P Eline ^a,c   Westendorp, Rudi G J ^a,c   van der Grond, Jeroen ^a   de Craen, Anton J M ^a,c   van Heemst, Diana ^a,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Ageing ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; DEXAMETHASONE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANAMNESIS; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; FAMILY STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYDROCORTISONE SALIVA LEVEL; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; PROGENY; SALIVA LEVEL; SMOKING; CHEMISTRY; FAMILY; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA; SECRETION;

AGED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEXAMETHASONE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SALIVA;

EID: 84856884880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031166     Document Type: Article

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