Publications by authors named "Ruth Giesser"
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates how childhood adversity (CA) affects stress responses in healthy adolescents, specifically elite parachute unit volunteers, and finds that even mild CA can have lasting effects.
- - Researchers observed significant reductions in gene expression linked to stress response, indicating that adolescents with CA show blunted cortisol reactions during intense combat simulations.
- - The findings suggest that mild CA can lead to alterations in immune and stress responses, which may influence how these adolescents manage or cope with stress in real-life combat situations later on.
Elevated salivary uric acid levels among adolescents with eating disorders.
Eat Weight Disord
December 2020
Article Synopsis
- Uric acid (UA) may play a significant role in eating disorders (ED) and the study aimed to investigate UA levels in adolescents with ED compared to healthy controls.
- Morning salivary UA concentrations were measured, revealing that adolescents with ED had significantly higher UA levels (mean 3.9 mg/dl) than the control group (mean 2.9 mg/dl).
- The findings suggest that elevated salivary UA is associated with ED, warranting further research to explore its implications for different ED types, recovery stages, and its potential biological role.