Socio-demographic and psychosocial predictors of salivary cortisol from older male participants in the Speedwell prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Associations between measures of socio-economic position and cortisol remain controversial. We examined the association between social class and cortisol reactivity in an aging male population.

Methods

The Speedwell cohort study recruited 2348 men aged 45-59 years from primary care between 1979 and 1982 (phase I) where occupational social class was used to classify socioeconomic position. Men were seen on four more occasions, the last being between 1997 and 1999 (phase 5) when salivary samples were obtained capturing cortisol reactivity to stressors (cognitive test and venepuncture) and circadian variations (awakening and night-time cortisol levels, circadian slope and area under curve) at morning and afternoon clinic sessions. Longitudinal association between s

SUBMITTER: Spiga F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9972784 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature