Ruth A. Hackett

TL;DR: The physiological responses to stress that are probably related to type 2 diabetes mellitus are highlighted and intervention studies that have attempted to modify psychological or social factors to improve outcomes in people with T2DM are given.

TL;DR: Cortisol responsivity was inversely related to loneliness in women, with the odds of being a cortisol responder decreasing with increased loneliness independently of covariates, and the impact of loneliness on health in women may be mediated in part through dysregulation of inflammatory and neuroendocrine systems.

TL;DR: The notion that people with type 2 diabetes experience chronic allostatic load, manifest as dynamic disturbances in reactivity to and recovery from stress across multiple biological systems, coupled with heightened experience of chronic life stress, provides a unifying perspective with implications for etiology and patient management.

TL;DR: In this nonclinical population, alterations in diurnal cortisol patterns were predictive of future glucose disturbance in this community-dwelling population.

TL;DR: In this nonclinical population, T2D was associated with a flatter slope in cortisol levels across the day and raised bedtime cortisol values and there was no association between morning cortisol, the cortisol awakening response, and T1D.