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The Role of Saliva Cortisol Measurement in Health and Disease Cover

The Role of Saliva Cortisol Measurement in Health and Disease

Publisher:Bentham Science
By:  and    
Open Access
|Nov 2024
Description
This e-book is based on a critical evaluation of existing literature on salivary cortisol aiming to evaluate the utility of salivary cortisol as a biomarker in various settings. It focuses on how different ways of evaluating levels of salivary cortisol may have an impact on the interpretation of cortisol measurements in various contexts.

This e-book focuses on salivary cortisol in relation to the following topics: psychosocial work environment (effort reward imbalance and job demand vs control model) psychosocial resources (mastery perceived control sense of coherence) psychosocial risk factors (perceived stress depression vital exhaustion burn-out) sleep quality biological markers (bodily factors cardiovascular risk factors inflammation and metabolism) and somatic outcome.

This ebook should serve as a reference for studies planned to adopt cortisol as an assessment tool.
PDF ISBN: 978-1-60805-342-1
Publisher: Bentham Science
Copyright owner: © 2012 Bentham Science Publishers
Publication date: 2024
Language: English
Pages: 213
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Clinical medicine,
Internal medicine,
Endocrinology, diabetology
BISAC subjects:
MED027000
Thema subjects:
MJG,
MFGM

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