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Abstract
This preliminary study investigated the possibility of differential effects of the
chronic stress of depression and the acute stress of surgery on post-menopausal oestrogen
levels.
Depressive illness was associated with significantly lower post-menopausal urinary
oestrogen excretion than was found in a control group of normal healthy women. Oestrogen
excretion in the latter group had a higher range and mean than values definitive of
the post-menopause which are generally accepted in the literature.
There was a trend, which did not reach significance, towards higher urinary oestrogen
levels in two surgical groups than in the normal healthy group.
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
January 20,
1981
Received:
September 11,
1980
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© 1981 Published by Elsevier Inc.
