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Cortisol:brain-derived neurotrophic factor ratio associated with silent ischaemia in a black male cohort: the SA BPA study

AIM: Emotional distress has been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Africans. Cortisol and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), as markers of emotional distress, increase cardiometabolic risk. We therefore aimed to investigate associations between cardiometabolic risk markers and t...

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Autores principales: Schutte, Christiaan E, Malan, Leoné, Scheepers, Jacobus D, Oosthuizen, Woudri, Malan, Nicolaas T, Cockeran, Marike
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Clinics Cardive Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5408496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27966001
http://dx.doi.org/10.5830/CVJA-2016-065