Association of depression with medical illness: does cortisol play a role?

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Histamine in the nervous system. (2008, background): “Modulation of somatotrope and brain-bone axis communication by the hypothalamic histamine system may impact bone physiology but also adult stem cell plasticity (700), immunity, and cancer, providing an intriguing link between brain function and tissue homeostasis (79, 730).”
The Perceived Stress Scale for Children: A Pilot Study in a Sample of 153 Children (2014, background): “While chronic stress has been strongly and negatively associated with health and performance across multidisciplinary research in adults [2-5], research on chronic stress effects in children has been less available.”
Stress and the brain: from adaptation to disease (2005, background): “Stress as a risk factor for mental illness The inability to cope with life events, which leads to the hypersecretion of corticosteroids, imposes an increased risk for depression, as well as increased abdominal obesity, osteoporosis and cardiovascular problem”
Positive health: connecting well-being with biology. (2004, background): “For example, depression has been linked with diverse medical conditions, and there is growing interest in the role of cortisol in understanding these effects (Brown et al. 2004).”