The detrimental effects of stress on human health are being increasingly recognized. There
is a critical need for the establishment of a biomarker that accurately measures its intensity …

Opioid abuse has increased in the last decade, primarily as a result of increased access to
prescription opioids. Physicians are also increasingly administering opioid analgesics for …

Background Hair cortisol analysis is increasingly being appreciated and applied in both
research and medicine, aiding endocrinologists with diagnosis. Content We provide an …

Purpose Current methods for measuring long-term endogenous production of cortisol can
be challenging due to the need to take multiple urine, saliva or serum samples. Hair grows …

In a collaborative multicenter case-control study, we investigated the effect of factor V Leiden
mutation, prothrombin gene mutation, and inherited deficiencies of protein C, protein S, and …

The authors investigated a large number of stressors and measures of psychological
distress in a multicenter, prospective cohort study of spontaneous preterm birth among 5,337 …

Purpose Stress has been shown to cause a large range of adverse fetal effects. This pilot
study is the first attempt to examine cortisol level in the hair of pregnant women and assess its …

Objective: Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a multifactorial disease. Recently, inflammation
has been suggested as a risk factor for DVT. The question is whether inflammation is a cause …

In a direct assay comparison we evaluated the diagnostic performance of 10 novel D-Dimer
assays for the exclusion of deep venous thrombosis (DVT). In addition, 3 conventional …

Neuronal development is the result of a multitude of neural migrations, which require
extensive cell-cell communication. These processes are modulated by extracellular matrix …