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Spirituality Moderates The Relationship of Stress-Linked Psychosocial Factors To Cortisol Homeostasis and Allostatic Load Among Afro-Caribbean Women

AIM: It is hypothesized that a chronic defeat response to social or environmental stressors increases the likelihood of dysfunction of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis with dysregulation of cortisol, accumulation of abdominal fat and development of glucose intoleranc...