Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Course of Social Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamada-oka, 565-0871, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Environ Health Prev Med. 2001 Apr;6(1):9-14. doi: 10.1007/BF02897303.
The incidences of diseases related to mental stress are increasing in Japan. Mental stress, unacknowledged for long periods, has been shown to lead to the development of a number of diseases. Thus, an index for mental stress is important to induce awareness of its presence. We focused on the relationship between cortisol and mental stress in this review. We will discuss both the usefulness and problems of cortisol as a mental stress index by summarizing the relationship between cortisol and mental stress. The present findings suggested that cortisol appears to be an adequate index for mental stress. However, there are several problems; the present group clarifies these problems and builds the comprehensive mental stress assessment systems by using saliva samples.
在日本，与精神压力相关的疾病发病率正在上升。长期未被认识到的精神压力已被证明会导致许多疾病的发展。因此，精神压力指数对于引起对其存在的认识很重要。在本次综述中，我们关注了皮质醇与精神压力之间的关系。通过总结皮质醇与精神压力之间的关系，我们将讨论皮质醇作为精神压力指标的有用性和问题。目前的研究结果表明，皮质醇似乎是精神压力的一个合适指标。然而，还存在一些问题；本研究小组通过使用唾液样本，阐明了这些问题，并建立了全面的精神压力评估系统。
