ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2007
Associations among salivary cortisol, melatonin, catecholamines, sleep quality and stress in women with breast cancer and healthy controls.
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A Randomised Double-blind Placebo-controlled Trial on Encapsulated Lemon Balm Efficacy and Tolerance on Sleep Quality Changes, and Mood and Wellbeing Effects Using Objective and Subjective Measures
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Circulating catecholamines are associated with biobehavioral factors and anxiety symptoms in head and neck cancer patients.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
Dysregulations in several biological systems in breast cancer patients have been reported, including abnormalities in endocrine and sympathetic nervous system indices, as well as psychological disturbances and sleep disorders. The purpose of this exploratory study was to compare women with breast cancer to healthy control women on measures of salivary cortisol, urinary catecholamines, overnight urinary melatonin, and self-reported sleep quality, symptoms of stress, depression, anxiety and mood disturbance, to determine if discernable patterns of dysregulations across systems were apparent. Thirty-three women were tested in each group, with an average age of approximately 52 years, primarily Caucasian and well-educated. Forty percent of the women with breast cancer had stage 2 disease and they were an average of 1.36 years post-diagnosis. Women with breast cancer had significantly higher levels of disturbance on all the psychological indices, but there were no differences between groups on any of the biological measures, with the exception that the control women had higher dopamine values than the participants with breast cancer. None of the psychological scores were correlated with the biological measures. These results are consistent with other studies of early-stage breast cancer and highlight the importance of considering disease characteristics when investigating endocrine and sympathetic nervous system functioning.
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