The association between cortisol and neighborhood disadvantage in a U.S. population-based sample of adolescents.
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SUBMITTER: Rudolph KE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3913161 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
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The association between cortisol and neighborhood disadvantage in a U.S. population-based sample of adolescents.
Rudolph Kara E KE Wand Gary S GS Stuart Elizabeth A EA Glass Thomas A TA Marques Andrea H AH Duncko Roman R Merikangas Kathleen R KR
Health & place 20131120
The association between neighborhood conditions and cortisol is rarely studied in children or adolescents and has been hampered by small sample size and racial/ethnic and geographic homogeneity. Our objective was to estimate the association between neighborhood disadvantage and salivary cortisol levels in a large, geographically and racially/ethnically diverse sample of adolescents from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement. Salivary cortisol was collected before and ...[more]
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