Cortisol responses to mental stress and the progression of coronary artery calcification in healthy men and women.

Cortisol responses to mental stress and the progression of coronary artery calcification in healthy men and women.

BACKGROUND:Psychosocial stress is a risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). The mechanisms are incompletely understood, although dysfunction of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis might be involved. We examined the association between cortisol responses to laboratory-induced mental s...

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Main Authors: Mark Hamer, Romano Endrighi, Shreenidhi M Venuraju, Avijit Lahiri, Andrew Steptoe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3273460?pdf=render

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