Cardiovascular and cortisol reactions to acute psychological stress and adiposity: Cross-sectional and prospective associations in the dutch famine birth cohort study

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 699-710

  Phillips, Anna C ^a   Roseboom, Tessa J ^b   Carroll, Douglas ^a   De Rooij, Susanne R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adiposity; blood pressure; cortisol; heart rate; obesity; stress reactivity

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

EID: 84866320041     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31825e3b91     Document Type: Article

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