Stress in Healthy Older People

Dear Colleagues

In recent decades, there has been a growing interest in understanding the underlying mechanisms behind the great heterogeneity in the aging process. Thus, while some people maintain that their abilities are relatively intact or show few changes, others experience important health problems. In this context, it has been suggested that the exposition to stress could explain, at least in part, these differences.

Stress is a common phenomenon in our daily lives that can clearly affect our health, being considered one of the most significant health problems of the current century. The impact of stress extends to most of the physiological systems such as cardiovascular, digestive, immune, neuroendocrine or nervous.

Therefore, the scope of this Special Issue is understanding the impact of stress in the aging process. Most studies carried out among older people have focused on unhealthy people; however, less is known about the stress effects on healthy people. Due to this gap in the literature, in this Special Issue we look forward to receiving original, unpublished empirical studies in both animal and human models, and review papers that study the effects of stress on any physiological system on healthy older subjects, including individual characteristics such as sex or gender, resilience, early life adversity, personality and loneliness, among others.

Prof. Dr. Alicia Salvador
Dr. Vanesa Hidalgo Calvo
Guest Editors

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• stress
• age
• cognitive function
• cardiovascular markers
• sex/gender
• hormones