Predictors of hair cortisol concentrations in older adults

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 132-140

  Feller, Silke ^a   Vigl, Matthaeus ^a   Bergmann, Manuela M ^a   Boeing, Heiner ^a   Kirschbaum, Clemens ^b   Stalder, Tobias ^b  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Chronic stress; Elderly; Hair cortisol; Human; Older age; Predictors

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CORTISOL HAIR LEVEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HAIR LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; LIFESTYLE; MENOPAUSE; MENTAL HEALTH; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; OPTIMISM; PAIN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCALP; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP QUALITY; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; GERMAN (CITIZEN); HAIR ANALYSIS; MALE; SCALP HAIR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE; CHRONIC STRESS; ELDERLY; HAIR CORTISOL; HUMAN; OLDER AGE; PREDICTORS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 84888037040     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.10.007     Document Type: Article

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