von Känel, Roland; Schmid, Jean-Paul; Abbas, Chiara Carolina; Gander, Marie-Louise; Saner, Hugo; Begré, Stefan (2010). Stress hormones in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder caused by myocardial infarction and role of comorbid depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 121(1-2), pp. 73-79. Amsterdam: Elsevier 10.1016/j.jad.2009.05.016
Full text not available from this repository.Chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been associated with perturbed hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function and a hyperadrenergic state. We hypothesized that patients with PTSD attributable to myocardial infarction (MI) would show peripheral hypocortisolemia and increased norepinephrine levels, whereby taking into account that depressive symptoms would affect this relationship.