Associations among work-related stress, cortisol, inflammation, and metabolic syndrome

Psychophysiology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 821-830

  Almadi, Tawfiq ^a   Cathers, Ian ^a   Chow, Chin Moi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biochemical; Psychopathological

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BURNOUT; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL; SECRETION (PROCESS);

BIOCHEMICAL; PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL;

ADULT; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84881614396     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12069     Document Type: Article

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