Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences by Subject "Defensive coping"

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Coping facilitated troponin T increases and hypo-responsivity in the copeptin-HPA-axis during acute mental stress in a black cohort: the SABPA study

Myburgh, Catharina Elizabeth; Malan, Leoné; Möller, Marisa; Steyn, Faans; Malan, Nicolaas Theodor (Elsevier, 2019)

Background Defensive coping (DefS) was associated with a vulnerable cardiovascular profile in blacks. The copeptin/vasopressin system is a manifestation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-axis activity and may act as an ...