Religious Service Attendance and Allostatic Load Among High-Functioning Elderly
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Religious service attendance and allostatic load among high-functioning elderly.
OBJECTIVE To examine the association between frequency of religious service attendance and an index of cumulative physiological dysregulation as measured by allostatic load (AL) (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, waist/hip ratio, high-density lipoprotein and total cholesterol, glycosylated hemoglobin, cortisol, serum dihydroepiandrosterone sulfate, norepinephrine, and epinephrine). There i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychosomatic Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0033-3174
DOI: 10.1097/psy.0b013e31806c7c57