Hair cortisol concentration is unaffected by basic military training, but related to sociodemographic and environmental factors

Boesch, Maria; Sefidan, Sandra; Annen, Hubert; Ehlert, Ulrike; Roos, Lilian; Uum, Stan Van; Russell, Elizabeth M.; Koren, Gideon; Marca, Roberto La

doi:10.3109/10253890.2014.974028

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“…Smoking was not related to HairF in most studies (Boesch et al, 2014;Dettenborn et al, 2012b;Skoluda et al, 2012), however, contradicting results have also been reported (Feller et al, 2014;Wells et al, 2014). No significant effect of alcohol use on HairE was found in this study.…”

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Determinants of hair cortisol and hair cortisone concentrations in adults

Staufenbiel

Penninx

Rijke

et al. 2015

Psychoneuroendocrinology

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confidence: 73%

“…One unexpected finding was the effect of season on HairF. Recent studies approached aspects of this issue by investigating effects of temperature, humidity and sweating on HairF (Boesch et al, 2014;Grass et al, 2015). An inverse correlation with temperature and positive correlation with relative humidity for HairF is reported.…”

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Determinants of hair cortisol and hair cortisone concentrations in adults

Staufenbiel

Penninx

Rijke

et al. 2015

Psychoneuroendocrinology

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109

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“…Two factors of the physical environment, malnutrition and disease burden, may be of relevance here in relation to both DHEAS and cortisol patterning. Although previous sample sizes for hair cortisol analyses using ELISAs and conducted among children are smaller, potentially obscuring extant variation, the concentrations reported are also generally much lower than those found here (see Boesch et al, ; Groenveld et al, ; Grunau et al, ; Karlén, Frostell, Theodorsson, Faresjö, & Ludvigsson, ; Karlén, Ludvigsson, Frostell, Theodorsson, & Faresjö, ; Noppe et al, ; Steudte et al, ; Vaghri et al, ). It is possible that our methodology is more effective at extracting hair cortisol, as we both milled and sonicated our samples, methods known to improve extraction (see Fourie et al, ).…”

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“…While topical steroid application is an obvious confound, sweat (Russell, Koren, Rieder, & Van Uum, ; cf. Noppe et al, ) and relative humidity (Boesch et al, ) may increase cortisol concentrations. The hair follicle itself may also be capable of locally producing cortisol (Ito et al, 2005).…”

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DHEAS patterning across childhood in three sub‐Saharan populations: Associations with age, sex, ethnicity, and cortisol

Helfrecht

Hagen

deAvila

et al. 2017

American J Hum Biol

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DHEAS patterns and age at adrenarche vary across cultures, perhaps indicating adaptive life history responses in diverse eco-cultural environments. Delayed involution of the fetal zone and DHEAS patterning may offer both cognitive protection and immune defense in high-risk, nutritionally-poor environments. Additional research in the majority world is essential to improving our understanding of the diversity of hormonal development and timing of 'switch points' in life history trajectories.

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“…Hair treatments such as hair dyeing, permanent curling or straightening have been reported to decrease HCC (9,28,64), although other studies have not found this (6,33,48,52,60,65). In the largest published HCC study thus far, in which hair glucocorticoids were measured in 1258 individuals using LC-MS/MS, cortisol and cortisone were lower in hair which was colored, permanently curled or straightened.…”

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Clinical applications of cortisol measurements in hair

Wester

Rossum

2015

European Journal of Endocrinology

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Cortisol measurements in blood, saliva and urine are frequently used to examine the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in clinical practice and in research. However, cortisol levels are subject to variations due to acute stress, the diurnal rhythm and pulsatile secretion. Cortisol measurements in body fluids are not always a reflection of long-term cortisol exposure. The analysis of cortisol in scalp hair is a relatively novel method to measure cumulative cortisol exposure over months up to years. Over the past years, hair cortisol concentrations (HCC) have been examined in association with a large number of somatic and mental health conditions. HCC can be used to evaluate disturbances of the HPA axis, including Cushing's syndrome, and to evaluate hydrocortisone treatment. Using HCC, retrospective timelines of cortisol exposure can be created which can be of value in diagnosing cyclic hypercortisolism. HCC have also been shown to increase with psychological stressors, including major life events, as well as physical stressors, such as endurance exercise and shift work. Initial studies show that HCC may be increased in depression, but decreased in general anxiety disorder. In posttraumatic stress disorder, changes in HCC seem to be dependent on the type of traumatic experience and the time since traumatization. Increased hair cortisol is consistently linked to obesity, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. Potentially, HCC could form a future marker for cardiovascular risk stratification, as well as serve as a treatment target.

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Hair cortisol concentration is unaffected by basic military training, but related to sociodemographic and environmental factors

Cited by 41 publications

References 34 publications

Determinants of hair cortisol and hair cortisone concentrations in adults

Determinants of hair cortisol and hair cortisone concentrations in adults

DHEAS patterning across childhood in three sub‐Saharan populations: Associations with age, sex, ethnicity, and cortisol

Clinical applications of cortisol measurements in hair

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