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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38532898/cushing-s-syndrome-during-pregnancy-two-case-reports
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Sumita Cholekho, Yuke Liu, Huiwen Tan
BACKGROUND: Cushing's syndrome (CS) during pregnancy is a rare endocrine disorder characterized by hypercortisolism, which is significantly associated with maternal-fetal complications. Despite its rarity, CS during pregnancy may be related to a high risk of complications for both the mother and fetus.The aim of the present case study is to update the diagnostic approach to CS during pregnancy and the therapeutic strategies for this medical condition to minimize maternal-fetal complications...
2024: Frontiers in Endocrinology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38517108/variation-in-diurnal-cortisol-patterns-among-the-indigenous-shuar-of-amazonian-ecuador
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Melissa A Liebert, Samuel S Urlacher, Felicia C Madimenos, Theresa E Gildner, Tara J Cepon-Robins, Christopher J Harrington, Richard G Bribiescas, Lawrence S Sugiyama, J Josh Snodgrass
OBJECTIVES: The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and its primary end product, the glucocorticoid cortisol, are major components of the evolved human stress response. However, most studies have examined these systems among populations in high-income settings, which differ from the high pathogen and limited resource contexts in which the HPA axis functioned for most of human evolution. METHODS: We investigated variability in diurnal salivary cortisol patterns among 298 Indigenous Shuar from Amazonian Ecuador (147 males, 151 females; age 2-86 years), focusing on the effects of age, biological sex, and body mass index (BMI) in shaping differences in diurnal cortisol production...
March 22, 2024: American Journal of Human Biology: the Official Journal of the Human Biology Council
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38503697/distal-to-proximal-etiologically-relevant-variables-associated-with-the-general-p-and-specific-factors-of-psychopathology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jonah Ormel, Melissa Vos, Odilia M Laceulle, Charlotte Vrijen, Camiel M van der Laan, Ilja M Nolte, Catharina A Hartman
BACKGROUND: The general factor of psychopathology, often denoted as p, captures the common variance among a broad range of psychiatric symptoms. Specific factors are co-modeled based on subsets of closely related symptoms. This paper investigated the extent to which wide-ranging genetic, personal, and environmental etiologically relevant variables are associated with p and specific psychopathology factors. METHODS: Using data from four waves (ages 11-19) of TRAILS, we modeled a bifactor model of p and four specific factors [internalizing, externalizing, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)]...
March 19, 2024: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38503394/diurnal-cortisol-neuroinflammation-and-neuroimaging-visual-rating-scales-in-memory-clinic-patients
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jasper Holleman, Makrina Daniilidou, Ingemar Kåreholt, Malin Aspö, Göran Hagman, Chinedu T Udeh-Momoh, Gabriela Spulber, Miia Kivipelto, Alina Solomon, Anna Matton, Shireen Sindi
BACKGROUND: Neuroinflammation is a hallmark of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenic process. Cortisol dysregulation may increase AD risk and is related to brain atrophy. This cross-sectional study aims to examine interactions of cortisol patterns and neuroinflammation markers in their association with neuroimaging correlates. METHOD: 134 participants were recruited from the Karolinska University Hospital memory clinic (Stockholm, Sweden). Four visual rating scales were applied to magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography scans: medial temporal lobe atrophy (MTA), global cortical atrophy (GCA), white matter lesions (WML), and posterior atrophy...
March 17, 2024: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38493596/infant-colic-and-hpa-axis-development-across-childhood
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bonnie E Brett, Stefania Vacaru, Roseriet Beijers, Carolina de Weerth
This study examines the long-term impact of infant colic on Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis development and the moderating role of attachment security, in a low-risk Dutch sample of 193 children. We assessed infant colic at 6 weeks, circadian cortisol concentrations at ages 1, 2.5, 6, and 10 years, and attachment security at 1 year. Findings indicated that infant colic was associated with steeper diurnal cortisol slopes and slightly higher cortisol concentrations throughout childhood. Attachment security did not moderate these associations...
January 26, 2024: Psychoneuroendocrinology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38475883/cushing-s-syndrome-in-pregnancy-secondary-to-adrenocortical-adenoma-a-case-series-and-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yan Wang, Yufen An, Xiaomei Hou, Yanan Xu, Zhen Li, Xin Liu, Fumin Zheng, Mingze Sun, Rendong Han, Caixia Lu, Jing Li, Jun Zhou
PURPOSE: To present a case series of Cushing's syndrome (CS) during pregnancy caused by adrenocortical adenomas, highlighting clinical features, hormonal assessments and outcomes. METHODS: We describe five pregnant women with CS, detailing clinical presentations and laboratory findings. RESULTS: Common clinical features included a full moon face, buffalo back and severe hypertension. Elevated blood cortisol levels with circadian rhythm disruption and suppressed adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) levels were observed...
March 2024: Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38454759/does-stress-response-axis-activation-differ-between-patients-with-autoimmune-disease-and-healthy-people
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eva Montero-López, María Isabel Peralta-Ramírez, Norberto Ortego-Centeno, José Mario Sabio, José Luis Callejas-Rubio, Nuria Navarrete-Navarrete, M Carmen García-Ríos, Ana Santos-Ruiz
Many studies have shown that patients with autoimmune disease present a hypoactive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, but the results are controversial. Our objective was to study differences in stress response axis activity between patients with autoimmune disease and healthy people. The study sample consisted of 97 women divided into four groups: 37 healthy women (HW), 21 with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 21 with Sjögren's syndrome (SS), and 18 with systemic sclerosis (SSc). After being exposed to a stress task, participants' skin conductance and salivary cortisol levels were measured in order to assess their response to psychological stress...
March 7, 2024: Stress and Health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38435428/study-protocol-of-the-heal-hoa-dual-randomized-controlled-trial-testing-the-effects-of-volunteering-on-loneliness-social-and-mental-health-in-older-adults
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lisa M Warner, Da Jiang, Dannii Yuen-Lan Yeung, Namkee G Choi, Rainbow Tin Hung Ho, Jojo Yan Yan Kwok, Youqiang Song, Kee-Lee Chou
BACKGROUND: Interventions to reduce loneliness in older adults usually do not show sustained effects. One potential way to combat loneliness is to offer meaningful social activities. Volunteering has been suggested as one such activity - however, its effects on loneliness remain to be tested in randomized controlled trials (RCT). METHODS: This planned Dual-RCT aims to recruit older adults experiencing loneliness, with subsequent randomization to either a volunteering condition (6 weeks of training before delivering one of three tele-based loneliness interventions to older intervention recipients twice a week for 6 months) or to an active control condition (psycho-education with social gatherings for six months)...
April 2024: Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38428723/cortisol-s-diurnal-rhythm-indexes-the-neurobiological-impact-of-child-adversity-in-adolescence
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elizabeth A Shirtcliff, Jamie L Hanson, Paula L Ruttle, Brandon Smith, Seth D Pollak
Adverse early life experiences, such as child maltreatment, shapes hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity. The impact of social context is often probed through laboratory stress reactivity, yet child maltreatment is a severe form of chronic stress that recalibrates even stable or relatively inflexible stress systems such as cortisol's diurnal rhythm. This study was designed to determine how different social contexts, which place divergent demands on children, shape cortisol's diurnal rhythm. Participants include 120 adolescents (9-14 years), including 42 youth with substantiated child physical abuse...
February 28, 2024: Biological Psychology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38415403/person-centered-methods-to-advance-developmental-psychopathology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elizabeth D Handley, Erinn B Duprey, Justin Russotti, Rachel Y Levin, Jennifer M Warmingham
Dante Cicchetti's remarkable contributions to the field of developmental psychopathology include the advancement of key principles such as the interplay of typical and atypical development, multifinality and equifinality, the dynamic processes of resilience, and the integration of multiple levels of analysis into developmental theories. In this paper we assert that person-centered data analytic methods are particularly well-suited to advancing these tenets of developmental psychopathology. We illustrate their utility with a brief novel empirical study focused on underlying patterns of childhood neuroendocrine regulation and prospective links with emerging adult functioning...
February 28, 2024: Development and Psychopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38405656/a-case-report-of-chronic-epipharyngitis-with-chronic-fatigue-treated-with-epipharyngeal-abrasive-therapy-eat
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Ito Hirobumi
A case of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) with chronic epipharyngitis was treated with epipharyngeal abrasive therapy (EAT). The symptoms of ME/CFS improved along with the improvement of chronic epipharyngitis. The patient was followed up with endocrine and autonomic function tests. Endocrine function tests included salivary cortisol and salivary α-amylase activity. Salivary α-amylase activity was stimulated by EAT. EAT improved the diurnal variability of salivary cortisol secretion...
February 2024: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38347335/circadian-rhythm-in-turbot-scophthalmus-maximus-daily-variation-of-blood-metabolites-in-recirculating-aquaculture-systems
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
J Petereit, G Lannig, B Baßmann, C Bock, B H Buck
INTRODUCTION: Animal welfare in aquaculture is becoming increasingly important, and detailed knowledge of the species concerned is essential for further optimization on farms. Every organism is controlled by an internal clock, the circadian rhythm, which is crucial for metabolic processes and is partially influenced by abiotic factors, making it important for aquaculture practices. OBJECTIVE: In order to determine the circadian rhythm of adult turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), blood samples were collected over a 24-h period and plasma metabolite profiles were analyzed by 1 H-NMR spectroscopy...
February 12, 2024: Metabolomics: Official Journal of the Metabolomic Society
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38345683/dual-release-hydrocortisone-improves-body-composition-and-the-glucometabolic-profile-in-patients-with-secondary-adrenal-insufficiency
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nanna Thurmann Jørgensen, Victor Brun Boesen, Stina Willemoes Borresen, Thea Christoffersen, Niklas Rye Jørgensen, Peter Plomgaard, Christina Christoffersen, Torquil Watt, Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen, Marianne Klose
PURPOSE: Studies have suggested improved metabolic profiles in patients with adrenal insufficiency treated with dual-release hydrocortisone (DR-HC) compared with conventional hydrocortisone (C-HC). This study investigates the effect of DR-HC compared with C-HC treatment on five health variables: diurnal salivary cortisol/cortisone, body composition, bone health, glucose metabolism, lipids, and blood pressure. METHODS: Prospective study of 27 participants (24 men) with secondary adrenal insufficiency with measurements during stable C-HC and 16 weeks after treatment switch to DR-HC...
February 12, 2024: Endocrine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38344394/cortisol-regulation-among-women-who-experience-suicidal-ideation-during-pregnancy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shaimaa M Elrefaay, Sandra J Weiss
BACKGROUND: Suicidal thoughts occur in up to one third of pregnant women. Suicidal ideation (SI) has been linked to hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysregulation in other populations and could underlie SI during pregnancy when the HPA axis undergoes gestational transformation. However, no studies have evaluated the HPA axis in prenatal suicide risk, including regulation of cortisol. We examined whether SI is associated with distinct features of cortisol regulation among women during the 3rd trimester of pregnancy...
December 2023: Journal of affective disorders reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38308964/associations-of-diurnal-cortisol-parameters-with-cortisol-stress-reactivity-and-recovery-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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REVIEW
Christiane Wesarg-Menzel, Ruth Marheinecke, Janneke Staaks, Veronika Engert
Researchers commonly assess the functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis by measuring natural fluctuations of its end product cortisol throughout the day or in response to a standardized stressor. Although it is conceivable that an individual releasing relatively more cortisol when confronted with a laboratory stressor does the same in everyday life, inconsistencies remain in the literature regarding associations between diurnal cortisol parameters and cortisol stress responses. Hence, the current meta-analysis aggregated findings of 12 studies to examine overall associations of diurnal cortisol parameters (including total output, diurnal slope, and cortisol awakening response [CAR]) with cortisol stress reactivity and recovery in the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST)...
January 24, 2024: Psychoneuroendocrinology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38287829/seasonal-influence-on-salivary-myeloperoxidase-diurnal-variations-in-young-healthy-subjects-a-preliminary-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kacper Nijakowski, Rafał Rutkowski, Dawid Gruszczyński, Janusz Witowski, Anna Surdacka, Dominika Kanikowska
BACKGROUND: The interaction between oxidative status markers and biological rhythms is considered particularly important in the pathogenesis of many diseases and more effective therapies. We aimed to determine if the salivary secretion of myeloperoxidase exhibits diurnal variations, and if the potential daily variability differs seasonally. METHODS: The study was performed in Poznan, Poland (52,25°N, 16,58°E) in 10 healthy male volunteers (age median 23...
January 12, 2024: Frontiers in Bioscience (Landmark Edition)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38286578/hypercortisolaemia-without-clinical-stigmata-of-cushing-syndrome
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sneha Krishna, Adam Morton
A man in his 20s was referred by his general practitioner because of the finding of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-dependent hypercortisolaemia, discovered as part of investigation of fatigue and alopecia. The man had no other clinical findings suggestive of Cushing syndrome. Further investigation revealed intact diurnal rhythm in cortisol production, normal bone density and excluded assay interference. Further investigation revealed the man's sibling had been labelled as having Cushing syndrome because of similar biochemical abnormalities...
January 29, 2024: BMJ Case Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38247325/circadian-rhythm-in-sportspersons-and-athletic-performance-a-mini-review
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REVIEW
Sraddha Pradhan, Arti Parganiha, C D Agashe, Atanu Kumar Pati
Circadian rhythms in the physiological and behavioral processes of humans play a crucial role in the quality of living and also in the magnitude of success and failure in various endeavors including competitive sports. The rhythmic activities of the body and performance in sportspersons do have a massive impact on their every cutthroat competition. It is essential to schedule sports activities and training of players according to their circadian typology and time of peak performance for improved performance and achievement...
January 21, 2024: Chronobiology International
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38233075/diurnal-production-of-cortisol-and-prediction-of-treatment-response-in-rheumatoid-arthritis-a-6-month-real-life-prospective-cohort-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maria P Yavropoulou, Maria G Filippa, Nikolaos I Vlachogiannis, George E Fragoulis, Katerina Laskari, Aimilia Mantzou, Stylianos Panopoulos, Antonis Fanouriakis, Vasiliki-Kalliopi Bournia, Gerasimos Evangelatos, Aggeliki Papapanagiotou, Maria G Tektonidou, George P Chrousos, Petros P Sfikakis
OBJECTIVES: A reduced adrenal reserve-associated cortisol production relative to the enhanced needs of chronic inflammation ( disproportion principle ) has been observed in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We examined the possible clinical value of diurnal cortisol measurements in active RA on treatment response prediction. METHODS: Diurnal cortisol production (measured at: 08-12:00/18:00-22:00) was assessed by electrochemiluminescence immunoassay in 28 consecutive patients with moderately/highly active RA, as well as 3 and 6 months after treatment initiation or/escalation...
January 17, 2024: RMD Open
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38232528/relationship-of-sleep-with-diurnal-cortisol-rhythm-considering-sleep-measurement-and-cortisol-sampling-schemes
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kaige Guo, Xiaolin Zhao, Jiahao Luo, Yipeng Ren, Yuan Liu, Juan Yang
Information on the relationships between the previous night's sleep and the next-day diurnal cortisol rhythm is inconsistent due to confounding factors such as sleep measurements (trait/state sleep and objective/subjective sleep) and cortisol sampling schemes. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate these relationships, considering the confounding factors. College students (n = 79) wore actigraphy for 3 days to undergo an evaluation of previous night-time sleep objectively and reported their subjective sleep parameters in a sleep diary...
January 3, 2024: Psychoneuroendocrinology
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