Hair-Based Assessment of Sex Steroid Hormones in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa.

ABSTRACT: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a complex psychiatric disorder accompanied by a variety of endocrine effects. Altered levels of the sex steroid hormones progesterone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) have been shown to occur in patients with AN using short-term hormonal measurement methods based on blood, saliva, and urine samples. However, since sex steroid hormone levels fluctuate during the menstrual cycle, these measurement methods require a great deal of effort due to the need to collect multiple samples in order to correctly determine the basal level of sex hormones. In contrast, hair-based assessments provide a marker of accumulated longer-term hormone exposure using a single, non-invasive sample. The aim of this study was to investigate sex steroid hormone levels via hair-based assessment

SUBMITTER: Batury VL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9863132 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature