Objective: Circulating cortisol and psychosocial stress may contribute to the pathogenesis of
obesity and metabolic syndrome (MS). To evaluate these relationships, a cross‐sectional …

Objective: The purpose of this report is to investigate the associations between metabolic
syndrome (MS) and levels of morning serum cortisol in a cohort of overweight Latino youth …

Context: There are conflicting reports of increased vs decreased hypothalamic-pituitary-
adrenal (HPA) activation in obesity; the most consistent finding is an inverse relationship …

Introduction Similarities in the symptomatic expressions of excess adiposity and
hypercortisolaemic conditions suggest that elevated glucocorticoid exposure may influence …

Objective: This study was conducted to obtain a detailed profile of hypothalamo‐pituitary‐
adrenal (HPA) axis activity and reactivity and its differential relationships with body fat …

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the varying
degrees of obesity and blood glucocorticoid levels in obese children and adolescents with …

Cortisol in obesity is a much-studied problem. Previous information indicates that cortisol
secretion is elevated but that circulatory concentrations are normal or low, suggesting that …

most matrices used in the past only represent snapshots (serum, saliva) or short-term values
(24-hour urine) of cortisol levels instead of chronic cortisol levels in the human body …

The present study was designed to examine the hypothesis that hypothalamic-pituitary-
adrenal axis activity as measured by 24-h cortisol production rate (CPR) and plasma levels …

Background Although there is substantial evidence of differential hypothalamic-pituitary-
adrenal (HPA) axis activity in both generalized and abdominal obesity, consistent trends in …