Although an association between both sleep duration and disturbance with salivary cortisol
has been suggested, little is known about the long term effects of poor quality sleep on …

Context: The association of short sleep duration with cortisol secretion has not been
thoroughly examined in large community dwelling populations and the relative importance …

Morning and evening salivary cortisol levels were correlated with sleep parameters in 14
patients with primary insomnia and 15 healthy controls. Salivary cortisol was sampled …

OBJECTIVE: The present study used information from a field study conducted among 4489
civil servants (70% women) in Denmark in 2007. The purpose was to examine the …

The objective was to examine the day-to-day variation in cortisol among healthy individuals
and its relation to the time of saliva sampling, work, stress and fatigue. During 4 consecutive …

The use of saliva samples is a practical and feasible method to explore basal diurnal cortisol
profiles in free-living research. This study explores a number of psychological and …

To determine whether Cortisol secretion interacts with daytime sleep in a similar manner to
that reported for night sleep, 14 healthy young men were studied during two 24-hour cycles …

It is thought that the salivary cortisol awakening response can serve as a reliable marker of
hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical activity. Response magnitude might be influenced by …

This study compared the daily pattern of free salivary cortisol secretion in winter and in
summer between two groups; participants with self-assessed seasonal affective disorder …

A distinct rise in cortisol levels that occurs after morning awakening is increasingly used as
an indicator of adrenocortical activity which is associated with different pathologies …