Elevated hair cortisol concentrations in recently fled asylum seekers in comparison to permanently settled immigrants and non-immigrants

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Mewes, R ^a   Reich, H ^a   Skoluda, N ^a   Seele, F ^a   Nater, U M ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYLUM SEEKER; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMAN (CITIZEN); HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; IMMIGRANT; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; TURKISH CITIZEN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HAIR; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; PSYCHOLOGY; REFUGEE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85014860051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2017.14     Document Type: Article

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