Why is evidence on job strain and coronary heart disease mixed? An illustration of measurement challenges in the Whitehall II study.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the effect of two kinds of intimate partner violence (IPV) (physical and psychological) in the previous 12 months (current) and before the previous 12 months (past) on psychological well-being among women aged 18 to 70 years who attend primary healthcare centers in Spain; and to analyze the effe...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Escribà-Agüir V,Ruiz-Pérez I,Montero-Piñar MI,Vives-Cases C,Plazaola-Castaño J,Martín-Baena D,G6 for the Study of Gender Violence in Spain.

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypnotic relaxation was used as an adjunct to pharmacologic treatment with 39 women hospitalized for premature contractions in pregnancy. The control group received medication alone and consisted of 70 women. Treatment was started at the time of hospitalization and lasted for 3 hr on the average. Patients were also gi...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Omer H,Friedlander D,Palti Z

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship between cardiac self-efficacy and health status, including symptom burden, physical limitation, quality of life, and overall health among outpatients with stable coronary heart disease (CHD). We hypothesized that lower self-efficacy would predict worse health status, independent of...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Sarkar U,Ali S,Whooley MA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty adults willing their body at death to medical science were compared on a number of personality variables with 30 nondonors, both groups equated for age, education, and socioeconomic status. Donors are internally directed, masters of their fate; nondonors rely on chance or luck to explain outcome. A more defin...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Cleveland SE

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep is a critical health behavior and one that is typically shared between husbands and wives or romantic partners. However, the science of sleep has traditionally conceptualized and evaluated sleep at the level of the individual. Considering the social context of sleep represents a significant shift in sleep resear...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Troxel WM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been associated with an increased cardiovascular risk, though the pathophysiologic mechanisms involved are elusive. A hypercoagulable state before occurrence of coronary thrombosis contributes to atherosclerosis development. We investigated whether PTSD would be associ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： von Känel R,Hepp U,Buddeberg C,Keel M,Mica L,Aschbacher K,Schnyder U

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The proportion of overweight and obese people has grown rapidly, and obesity has now been widely recognized as an important public health problem. At the same time, stress has increased in working life. The 2 problems could be connected if work stress promotes unhealthy eating habits and sedentary behavior an...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Kouvonen A,Kivimäki M,Cox SJ,Cox T,Vahtera J

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Suboptimal self-care by individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM) is a significant public health concern. The common-sense model (CSM) proposes that illness representations are associated with coping and health outcomes across various conditions. The present study examined the efficacy of a CSM-based interventi...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Chan VWY,Kong APS,Lau JTF,Mak WWS,Cameron LD,Mo PKH

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined the genetic and environmental contributions to the individual differences in blood pressure (BP) levels and underlying hemodynamic characteristics at rest and during mental challenge tasks in a large twin cohort of youth. Including both European American and African American twins further ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Wu T,Treiber FA,Snieder H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study consisted of 1101 Caucasian, male outpatients, who were screened for depression and hypertension in order to test the hypothesis that there is a unique relationship between these two illnesses. Depression was assessed by the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) while diastolic blood pressure (BP) was acce...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Friedman MJ,Bennet PL

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study serotonergic involvement in the development of gastric lesions following activity wheel stress, three groups of rats (gastric lesions, no gastric lesions, and home--cage controls) were killed following exposure to the experimental procedures. The brains were dissected into eight specific areas and subjected t...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Hellhammer DH,Hingtgen JN,Wade SE,Shea PA,Aprison MH

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Perceived discrimination has been associated with psychosocial distress and adverse health outcomes. We examined associations of perceived discrimination measures with changes in kidney function in a prospective cohort study, the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span. METHODS:Our s...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Beydoun MA,Poggi-Burke A,Zonderman AB,Rostant OS,Evans MK,Crews DC

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is implicated in the etiology of major depressive disorder (MDD). Human neuroimaging techniques are increasingly used to characterize the neural circuitry mediating actions of inflammation on mood, motivation, and cognition and its relationship to MDD. In this issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, Byrne and co...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Krishnadas R,Harrison NA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether worries about work are linked to people's own cortisol levels and their spouses' cortisol levels in everyday life and whether marital factors may moderate these links. Although research has shown that satisfying marriages can buffer the physiological effects of everyday stress, the spec...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Slatcher RB,Robles TF,Repetti RL,Fellows MD

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association of anxiety with incident dementia and cognitive impairment not dementia (CIND). METHODS:We conducted a prospective study of men aged 48 to 67 years at baseline anxiety assessment; we measured cognition 17 years later. We studied 1481 men who were either eligible for examination or ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Gallacher J,Bayer A,Fish M,Pickering J,Pedro S,Dunstan F,Ebrahim S,Ben-Shlomo Y

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Numerous theories have proposed that acute and chronic stressors may exert a cumulative effect on life-span health by causing biological "wear and tear," or allostatic load, which in turn promotes disease. Very few studies have directly tested such models, though, partly because of the challenges associated w...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Slavich GM,Shields GS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to examine the association between psychobiological stress reactivity during healthy pregnancy and depressive symptoms in the early puerperium. METHODS:A sample of healthy nulliparous pregnant women (N = 57) between the ages of 21 and 35 years underwent a standardized psychosoci...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Nierop A,Bratsikas A,Zimmermann R,Ehlert U

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore whether primary school entry is associated with changes in immune system parameters in HIV-affected children. HIV-affected children are vulnerable to psychosocial stressors, regardless of their own HIV serological status. METHODS:Data from 38 HIV-positive and 29 HIV-negative children born to serop...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Thomas MR,Wara D,Saxton K,Truskier M,Chesney MA,Boyce WT

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As increasing numbers of patients survive acute leukemia, it has become important to study the long-term psychological and social adjustment of patients who have successfully completed their leukemia treatment. An important aspect of this inquiry is comparing the long-term psychosocial impact of two treatments for acu...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Lesko LM,Ostroff JS,Mumma GH,Mashberg DE,Holland JC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Numerous studies have found elevated depressive symptoms among individuals with Type 2 diabetes, yet the mechanisms remain unclear. We examined whether genetic loci previously associated with depressive symptoms predict depressive symptoms among overweight/obese individuals with Type 2 diabetes or change in ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： McCaffery JM,Papandonatos GD,Faulconbridge LF,Erar B,Peter I,Wagenknecht LE,Pajewski NM,Anderson A,Wadden TA,Wing RR,Look AHEAD Research Group.

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe factors influencing chest pain expression in patients with cardiac or noncardiac disease. METHODS:The authors conducted a case presentation and review of literature. RESULTS:Causes of chest pain are diverse. Psychologic factors influence chest pain expression commonly in patients with or without...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Sheps DS,Creed F,Clouse RE

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggest that the ways in which parents respond to children's health complaints (reinforcement) and the ways in which they cope with their own illnesses (modeling) influence the frequency of symptoms, disability days, and health care visits made by these children when they grow up. However, previous st...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Whitehead WE,Crowell MD,Heller BR,Robinson JC,Schuster MM,Horn S

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The personality patterns of cancer patients as found in retrospective case-control studies are often suspected to be consequences of the disease. In this study an attempt was made to remove the bias arising from the disease itself by taking into account two indicator variables for the subject's anticipation of the sub...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Scherg H

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine ethnic differences in pain sensitivity and relationship of pain tolerance to blood pressure and neuroendocrine factors. METHODS:Fifty-one African Americans (24 men, 27 women) and 55 people from other ethnic groups (primarily Caucasian; 26 men, 29 women) were tested twice for pain sensitivity to t...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Mechlin MB,Maixner W,Light KC,Fisher JM,Girdler SS

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate differences in social problem solving (SPS) between individuals with noncardiac chest pain (NCCP) and persons with chest pain who tested positive for underlying cardiac disease. METHODS:The major design involved a matched case-control methodology and compared a group of patients with NCCP (n =...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Nezu AM,Nezu CM,Jain D,Xanthopoulos MS,Cos TA,Friedman J,Lee M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To hypothesize in a new and different population that administrative database (ADB) screening would identify somatizing patients by increasing numbers of visits, female gender, and greater percent of International Classification of Diseases, 9th Edition (ICD-9) primary diagnosis codes in musculoskeletal, ner...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Smith RC,Gardiner JC,Luo Z,Rost K

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this industrial-based study we compared the blood pressure (BP)-lowering effectiveness of relaxation, a beta blocker, and the combined use of these two treatments in 47 untreated, mildly hypertensive blue collar steel workers. Using a randomized two by two factorial design, patients received either nadolol or place...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Adsett CA,Bellissimo A,Mitchell A,Wilczynski N,Haynes RB

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The John Henryism hypothesis proposes that high-effort, active coping in impoverished, low-resource environments is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but a lower risk of disease in a high-resource environment. To test this hypothesis, we examined the association of John Henryism Act...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Booth JM,Jonassaint CR

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of depression in cancer patients has been hampered by difficulty in establishing diagnostic criteria, since neurovegetative signs and symptoms may be attributable either to depression or physical illness. Confusion has also arisen in defining the boundary between "normal" grieving with illness, and "abnormal...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Bukberg J,Penman D,Holland JC

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate whether phobic anxiety is associated with increased risk of cardiac mortality in individuals with established coronary heart disease (CHD) and to examine the role of reduced heart rate variability (HRV) in mediating this risk. Previous findings suggest that phobic anxiety may pose increased risk ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Watkins LL,Blumenthal JA,Babyak MA,Davidson JR,McCants CB Jr,O'Connor C,Sketch MH Jr

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00