Health anxiety moderates the association between morning cortisol and earlier-onset posttraumatic stress disorder: A 2-year injury cohort study.
This study investigated whether baseline morning serum cortisol predicts the timing of PTSD onset following injury and determined whether this association is moderated by health anxiety. In a prospective injury cohort (N = 895), morning serum cortisol was measured and health anxiety was assessed using the Illness Attit...