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A 4-session written emotional disclosure intervention lowers 6-month sympathoadrenal urinary output in persons living with HIV.

Roger McIntoshHannah HoogerwoerdSalman S AhmadCassandra MichelKaitlyn DillonMahendra KumarGail Ironson
Published in: Psychoneuroendocrinology (2023)
Significant reductions in the total output and concentration of urinary E were found up to 6-months following initiation of a 4-session guided written emotional disclosure intervention. Profiles of sympathoadrenal activity and response to expressive writing differ between men and women living with HIV. Futher research is need to characterize the putative pathways linking sympathoadrenal response to upstream neurobiological function and downstream inflammatory-immune status in women living with HIV and PTSD.
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