Prenatal and postpartum evening salivary cortisol levels in association with peripartum depressive symptoms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Iliadis, Stavros I ^a   Comasco, Erika ^a   Sylvén, Sara ^a   Hellgren, Charlotte ^a   Poromaa, Inger Sundström ^a   Skalkidou, Alkistis ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE SALIVA LEVEL; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; NIGHT; PERINATAL PERIOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; SALIVA LEVEL; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWEDEN; SYMPTOM; TOBACCO USE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DEPRESSION; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LOGISTIC MODELS; PERIPARTUM PERIOD; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84943328605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135471     Document Type: Article

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