Health-related and economic burden among family caregivers of patients with acute myeloid leukemia or hematological malignancies

E Yucel, S Zhang, S Panjabi - Advances in Therapy, 2021 - Springer
Introduction Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is associated with lower survival and greater
unmet need compared with some other hematologic malignancies (HMs). Despite …

Caregiving alters immunity and stress hormones: a review of recent research

AC Whittaker, S Gallagher - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Caregiving effects are not restricted to older caregivers.•Caregiving stress may
accelerate immune ageing among younger caregivers.•Positive effects of caregiving emerge …

Sleep inconsistency and markers of inflammation

JM Dzierzewski, EK Donovan, DB Kay… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Objective: Poor sleep is associated with higher levels of inflammatory biomarkers.
Conventionally, higher average time awake, lower average time asleep, and lower sleep …

Latent virus reactivation in astronauts on the international space station

SK Mehta, ML Laudenslager, RP Stowe, BE Crucian… - npj …, 2017 - nature.com
Reactivation of latent herpes viruses was measured in 23 astronauts (18 male and 5 female)
before, during, and after long-duration (up to 180 days) spaceflight onboard the international …

Pregnancy-specific anxiety and gestational length: The mediating role of diurnal cortisol indices

KM Ross, H Mander, G Rinne, M Okun, C Hobel… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Preterm birth or shorter gestation is a common adverse pregnancy outcome.
Pregnancy-specific anxiety is robustly associated with risk for shorter gestation …

Intraindividual variability in cortisol: Approaches, illustrations, and recommendations

SC Segerstrom, SE Sephton, PM Westgate - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2017 - Elsevier
Most of the variance in diurnal cortisol is attributable to intraindividual variability (IIV),
defined as relatively short-term, reversible changes. Multiple methods for measuring IIV …

A randomized controlled pilot study of inflammatory gene expression in response to a stress management intervention for stem cell transplant caregivers

ML Laudenslager, TL Simoneau, S Philips… - Journal of behavioral …, 2016 - Springer
Few studies have addressed whether stress-associated physiological changes in caregivers
are reversible by psychological interventions mitigating distress. We report on pro …

Day-to-day variability of stress biomarkers during a music intervention in people living with dementia and their family caregivers

A Emami, J Jun, T Theorell, G Engström… - Science …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Examination of the variability of stress biomarkers among people living with dementia and
their family caregivers can provide evidence of stress reactions and corresponding self …

Maternal caregivers have confluence of altered cortisol, high reward-driven eating, and worse metabolic health

RM Radin, AE Mason, ML Laudenslager, ES Epel - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Animal models have shown that chronic stress increases cortisol, which contributes to
overeating of highly palatable food, increased abdominal fat and lower cortisol reactivity …

Intra-individual cortisol variability and low-grade inflammation over 10 years in older adults

H Herriot, C Wrosch, JP Gouin, GE Miller - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective This study examined the associations between intra-individual variability in, and
inter-individual levels of, diurnal cortisol secretion with a marker of low-grade inflammation …