Fatigue in patients with coronary artery disease: Association with thyroid axis hormones and cortisol

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 848-853

  Bunevicius, Adomas ^a,b   Gintauskiene, Vilte ^a   Podlipskyte, Aurelija ^a   Zaliunas, Remigijus ^a   Brozaitiene, Julija ^a   Prange, Arthur J ^b   Bunevicius, Robertas ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; cortisol; exercise capacity; exertion; fatigue; thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUTCH EXERTION FATIGUE SCALE; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTENSION; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL FATIGUE INVENTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADRENAL GLANDS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MENTAL FATIGUE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THYROID GLAND; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 84867239340     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e318268e7f0     Document Type: Article

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