Early life trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and allostatic load in a sample of American Indian adults

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Thayer, Zaneta ^a   Barbosa Leiker, Celestina ^b   McDonell, Michael ^c   Nelson, Lonnie ^b   Buchwald, Dedra ^c   Manson, Spero ^d  

^a Da1rtmouth College ^*  (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALLOSTASIS; AMERICAN INDIAN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLORADO; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTRAUMA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALLOSTASIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLORADO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 85006365200     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22943     Document Type: Article

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