Posted by linkadge on December 7, 2009, at 7:48:03
In reply to Re: Urinary levels of catecholamines among individuals, posted by SLS on December 7, 2009, at 6:49:31
I think however, that urinary levels of neurotransmitters or metabolites is still not a necessarily good indicator of their function in the CNS.
As mentioned in the article, stress could be associated with bruxism, in which case a higher level of catecholamine excretion might be expected.
But, I would still suggest that this information *is* essentially unusable.
What is causing the elevated catecholamine excretion? Is it stress, or is it something more closly linked with the bruxism itself? Is the catecholamine excretion exaserbating the bruxism symptoms, or is it a psysiological adaptive response to the bruxism. Perhapse the catecholamine levels are related to another disorder which is highly comorbid with bruxism.
Was concomitant use of medication analyzed, which may account for the findings?
The bottom line is that we don't know whether doing something to *correct this finding* will have an ameliorative or deleterious effect on the disorder.
Linkadge
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