Hair cortisol concentrations in a Spanish sample of healthy adults.

BACKGROUND:Hair cortisol concentration (HCC), as a novel promising method to retrospectively measure hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activation, is being increasingly studied. We tested the relationships between HCC and a range of possible confounding variables in a Spanish sample of healt...

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Main Authors: Maria Angeles Garcia-Leon, Maria Isabel Peralta-Ramirez, Laura Arco-Garcia, Borja Romero-Gonzalez, Rafael A Caparros-Gonzalez, Noelia Saez-Sanz, Ana Maria Santos-Ruiz, Eva Montero-Lopez, Andres Gonzalez, Raquel Gonzalez-Perez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6161874?pdf=render