Posttraumatic stress symptoms and salivary cortisol levels.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

This study assessed the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and salivary cortisol levels after a severe ice storm.

METHOD:

Posttraumatic stress symptoms (Impact of Event Scale scores) and salivary cortisol levels were determined in 115 victims of an ice storm and in 27 healthy comparison subjects 1 month and approximately 1 year after the ice storm.

RESULTS:

Posttraumatic stress symptoms and salivary cortisol levels.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

This study assessed the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and salivary cortisol levels after a severe ice storm.

METHOD:

Posttraumatic stress symptoms (Impact of Event Scale scores) and salivary cortisol levels were determined in 115 victims of an ice storm and in 27 healthy comparison subjects 1 month and approximately 1 year after the ice storm.

RESULTS:

Gender differences in posttraumatic stress disorder after motor vehicle accidents.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

Women have higher rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than men. The authors examined prior trauma, PTSD, major depression, anxiety disorder not including PTSD, and peritraumatic dissociation; current peritraumatic dissociation; and passenger injury as possible explanations for the different rates of acute PTSD in women and men after a serious motor vehicle accident.

METHOD:

Epidemiology of unexplained fatigue and major depression in the community: the Baltimore ECA follow-up, 1981-1994.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Fatigue is a common, non-specific, subjective symptom associated with several medical and psychiatric illnesses. The purpose of this investigation was to explore further the epidemiology of unexplained fatigue in the general population and the relationship between fatigue and depression.

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