28 research outputs found
Nutritional psychiatry research: an emerging discipline and its intersection with global urbanization, environmental challenges and the evolutionary mismatch
The Impact of Thromboelastography on Blood Transfusion Policy in Adult Cardiac Surgery—A Retrospective Observational Study from Eastern India
The Impact of Stressful Life Events on Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the French Population: Findings from the GAZEL Cohort Study
Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Traumatic Combat Stress among Israeli Veterans of the Lebanon War
Point-of-care platelet function testing to predict blood loss after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: a prospective observational pilot study
Lifestyle, stress and cortisol response: Review I: Mental stress
The incidences of diseases related to mental stress are increasing in Japan. Mental stress, unacknowledged for long periods, has been shown to lead to the development of a number of diseases. Thus, an index for mental stress is important to induce awareness of its presence. We focused on the relationship between cortisol and mental stress in this review. We will discuss both the usefulness and problems of cortisol as a mental stress index by summarizing the relationship between cortisol and mental stress. The present findings suggested that cortisol appears to be an adequate index for mental stress. However, there are several problems; the present group clarifies these problems and builds the comprehensive mental stress assessment systems by using saliva samples