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Diurnal cortisol patterns and stress reactivity in child Holocaust survivors reaching old age
Author(s)	Elisheva A M van der Hal-Van Raalte, Marian J Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marinus H van Ijzendoorn
Journal title	Aging & Mental Health, vol 12, no 5, September 2008
Publisher	Taylor & Francis, September 2008
Pages	pp 630-638
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Jewish ; War ; Stress ; Endocrine systems ; Israel.
Annotation	Late-life implications of early traumatic stress for the adreno-cortical system were examined in a sample of 333 child survivors of the Holocaust (born between 1935 and 1944), who were subjected to Nazi persecution during infancy. Age, parental loss during the Holocaust, current depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and physical illness were not associated with differences in basal diurnal cortisol levels. Neuro-endocrine effects, however, were found to stress reactively through elevated cortisol levels in male respondents in the younger age group (born 1941-1945) and in male respondents suffering from PTSD-related functional impairment. The youngest survivors of Nazi persecution show late-life effects of traumatic stress during early childhood, evidenced by the early onset of differential neuro-endocrine pathways to stress-regulating strategies. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-081124240 A
Classmark	TKS: VMC: QNH: BKH: 7H6
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