Elevated hair cortisol levels in chronically stressed dementia caregivers

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 47, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-30

  Stalder, Tobias ^a   Tietze, Antje ^a   Steudte, Susann ^a   Alexander, Nina ^a   Dettenborn, Lucia ^b   Kirschbaum, Clemens ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caregiver; Chronic; Cortisol; Depression; Hair; Human; Stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; HAIR LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE HAIR LEVEL; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SELF REPORT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; FAMILY; HAIR; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UPREGULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMENTIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84903750634     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.04.021     Document Type: Article

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