Exploring Allostatic Load as an Objective Measure of Stress Among U.S. Women With and Without HIV: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT: Background: Stress has been found to be linked to adverse health outcomes. Having an objective measure of stress to complement validated self-reported stress measures is helpful for assessing the impact of interventions aimed at reducing stress and measuring its associations with health outcomes. Allostatic load is an objective measure that summarizes stress's impact on multiple physiological systems. However, inconsistent combinations of indicators in an allostatic load index (ALI) are found in literature. The purpose was to (1) explore the ability to identify a set of indicators for inclusion in an ALI related to perceived stress and (2) explore the ability of the calculated ALI to identify an association between ALI and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) score category among a s

SUBMITTER: Hall KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12422153 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature