Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2002 Jan;6(4):260-3.
doi: 10.1007/BF02897979.

Lifestyle, mental health status and salivary secretion rates

Masahiro Toda  1 , Kanehisa Morimoto, Sanae Fukuda, Kazuo Hayakawa
Affiliations

Lifestyle, mental health status and salivary secretion rates

Masahiro Toda et al. Environ Health Prev Med. 2002 Jan.

Abstract

The relations between salivary variables, lifestyle and mental health status were investigated for 61 healthy female university students. The salivary secretion rates were significantly higher in the good lifestyle groups compared with the poor lifestyle groups. Among the 8 lifestyle items tested. "eating breakfast" and "mental stress" were significantly related to the salivary secretion rates. The present findings suggest that the acquisition of a good lifestyle is also very important from the viewpoint of the prevention of oral disease.A highly significant correlation (r=0.97; p<0.01) between the salivary cortisol levels and the cortisol secretion rates when controlled for the salivary secretion rates was also observed. This suggests that there is a high correlation between the intact salivary cortisol levels and the total cortisol quantity per unit time. Therefore, both these values can be used as a good index for the salivary cortisol determination.

Keywords: breakfast eating; cortisol; lifestyle; mental stress; saliva secretion.

PubMed Disclaimer

References

    1. Yamaguchi M, Takai N. Saliva as a mirror of the body (in Japanese). Tokyo: Kougyou-chousakai, 1999.
    1. Johansson G, Ravald N. Comparison of some salivary variables between vegetarians and omnivores. Eur. J. Oral. Sci. 1995; 103: 95–98. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Johansson G, Birkhed D. Effect of a long-term change from a mixed to a lacto-vegetarian diet on human saliva. Arch. Oral. Biol. 1994; 39: 283–288. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Tenovuo JO. Human saliva: clinical chemistry and microbiology. florida: CRC press, 1989.
    1. Kirschbaum C, Hellhammer DH. Salivary cortisol in psychoneuroendocrine research: recent developments and applications. Psychoneuroendocrinology 1994; 19: 313–333. - DOI - PubMed