Personality characteristics, body image and social attitudes of organ transplant donors versus nondonors.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), a protein secreted by immune cells and the pituitary gland, may be associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) and the mental state of coronary patients. The first origin of MIF suggests positive, the second negative associations. The aim of this study was to ex...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Kwaijtaal M,van der Ven AJ,van Diest R,Bruggeman CA,Bär FW,Calandra T,Appels A,Sweep FC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although increased morbidity and mortality have been reliably associated with social isolation and less satisfying personal relationships, relatively little is known about the underlying biopsychosocial mechanisms. We assessed problem-solving behaviors and changes in immune function in 90 newlywed couples who were adm...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Kiecolt-Glaser JK,Malarkey WB,Chee M,Newton T,Cacioppo JT,Mao HY,Glaser R

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate relationships between serum thyroid hormone levels and the severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in a group of 65 male Vietnam combat veterans who participated as members of cohorts in an elective inpatient treatment program. Thyroid hormone measures included ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Wang S,Mason J,Southwick S,Johnson D,Lubin H,Charney D

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Denial may be adaptive during hospitalization for acute coronary disease. We studied the impact of denial in 48 patients referred to a tertiary care center for treatment of unstable angina. Using the Hackett-Cassem Denial Scale, we divided the group into 25 high deniers and 23 low deniers. The two groups were comparab...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Levenson JL,Mishra A,Hamer RM,Hastillo A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is evidence that clinical depression and negative mood are associated with elevated basal cortisol levels. Recently, measuring the cortisol response during the first hour in the morning with strict reference to the time of awakening was established as a reliable marker of individual adrenocortical activ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Pruessner M,Hellhammer DH,Pruessner JC,Lupien SJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulties in predicting "real life" physiological variation from responses to controlled stress tasks suggest the need for more ecologically valid laboratory challenges. The Social Competence Interview (SCI) measures physiological changes elicited by re-experiencing a life situation in which a valued striving was u...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Ewart CK,Kolodner KB

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors recruited 229 treatment-seeking anorexic and bulimic women for a prospective, longitudinal study. Telephone interviews were arranged every 3 months for at least 1 year for 225 patients. At intake, 132 subjects were menstruating, 34 subjects were taking oral contraceptives, 5 subjects had an organic cause f...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Copeland PM,Sacks NR,Herzog DB

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aims of this pilot study were: 1) to establish the reliability and validity of a new self-report instrument designed to index monitoring for sleep-related threat; 2) to determine the presence of ten monitoring types proposed in a recent cognitive model of insomnia and to examine the relationship between m...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Semler CN,Harvey AG

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The interplay between depression and socioeconomic position (SEP) in predicting cardiovascular outcomes has rarely been examined. We investigated whether SEP modified the effect of antidepressant use on coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality. METHODS:The data consisted of an 11% random sample of the Finnish ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Konttinen H,Kilpi F,Moustgaard H,Martikainen P

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The influence of low socioeconomic status on cardiovascular disease may be mediated in part by sustained activation of stress-related autonomic and neuroendocrine processes. We hypothesized that low socioeconomic status would be associated with heightened ambulatory blood pressure and cortisol output over th...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Steptoe A,Kunz-Ebrecht S,Owen N,Feldman PJ,Willemsen G,Kirschbaum C,Marmot M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the role of self-efficacy and depression as potential pathways from physical activity to fatigue in two study samples: breast cancer survivors (BCS) (n = 192) and individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) (n = 292). METHODS:We hypothesized that physical activity would be associated indirectly with ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： McAuley E,White SM,Rogers LQ,Motl RW,Courneya KS

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Psychological stress is thought to undermine host resistance to infection through neuroendocrine-mediated changes in immune competence. Associations between stress and infection have been modest in magnitude, however, suggesting individual variability in stress response. We therefore studied environmental stressors, p...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Boyce WT,Chesney M,Alkon A,Tschann JM,Adams S,Chesterman B,Cohen F,Kaiser P,Folkman S,Wara D

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research with animals has indicated a central nervous system effect on the immune system. This report describes findings of a possible psychologically mediated effect on the delayed hypersensitivity reaction to tuberculin in humans. Seven tuberculin positive subjects evidenced a decreased response to tuberculin...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Smith GR Jr,McDaniel SM

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test whether bullied children have an elevated risk of being overweight in young adulthood and whether this association is: (1) consistent with a dose-response relationship, namely, its strength increases with the chronicity of victimization; (2) consistent across different measures of overweight; (3) spec...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Baldwin JR,Arseneault L,Odgers C,Belsky DW,Matthews T,Ambler A,Caspi A,Moffitt TE,Danese A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of psychosomatic studies have suggested that alexithymia, impairment in identifying and expressing inner feelings, might somehow affect the course of various illnesses. However, none of these studies have distinguished between an impact of alexithymia on actual pathophysiological change versus an impact only ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Kauhanen J,Kaplan GA,Cohen RD,Salonen R,Salonen JT

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep disturbance was studied in relation to psychiatric and physical symptoms for 214 male psychiatric outpatients and 248 male nonpatients. Our self-report instrument required that subjects describe the frequency of symptoms precisely on a five-point scale from "every day" to "not at all." Percentages are based on t...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Sweetwood HL,Kripke DF,Grant I,Yager J,Gerst MS

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is evidence that placebo effects may influence hormone secretion. However, few studies have examined placebo effects in the endocrine system, including oxytocin placebo effects. We studied whether it is possible to trigger oxytocin placebo effects using a classical conditioning paradigm. METHODS:Ninety...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Skvortsova A,Veldhuijzen DS,Pacheco-Lopez G,Bakermans-Kranenburg M,van IJzendoorn M,Smeets MAM,Wilderjans TF,Dahan A,van den Bergh O,Chavannes NH,van der Wee NJA,Grewen KM,van Middendorp H,Evers AWM

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Asthma is a chronic condition affecting 300 million people worldwide. Management involves adherence to pharmacological treatments such as corticosteroids and β-agonists, but residual symptoms persist. As asthma symptoms are exacerbated by stress, one possible adjunct to pharmacological treatment is expressiv...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Smith HE,Jones CJ,Hankins M,Field A,Theadom A,Bowskill R,Horne R,Frew AJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine retinal vascular caliber, an indicator of early microvascular disease and depression in patients with Type 2 diabetes. METHODS:We conducted a clinic-based study, comparing participants with Type 2 diabetes with major depression (n = 43), without depression (n = 49), and healthy controls without di...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Nguyen TT,Wong TY,Islam FM,Hubbard L,Ajilore O,Haroon E,Darwin C,Esser B,Kumar A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one healthy women were studied during one menstrual cycle in order to determine whether cortisol and growth hormone responsivity to psychological stress was related to estrogen levels. Blood was drawn approximately three times per week for analysis of estradiol, progesterone, cortisol, and human growth hormone....

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Abplanalp JM,Livingston L,Rose RM,Sandwisch D

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the relationship between anxiety and coronary artery disease (CAD). State (S-ANX) and trait (T-ANX) anxiety were assessed with the State-Trait Personality Inventory (STPI), which was administered to 373 patients (230 males, 143 females) 12 to 18 hr prior to their undergoing coronary arteriograp...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Schocken DD,Greene AF,Worden TJ,Harrison EE,Spielberger CD

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship between hostility and biological risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) in a population of white European and South Asian men and women living in the United Kingdom. METHODS:This cross-sectional study involved a community-based sample of 1,757 healthy white and South Asian ...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Williams ED,Steptoe A,Chambers JC,Kooner JS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen healthy women (20-32 years) not taking oral contraceptives were tested at three phases of their menstrual cycles (menses, preovulatory phase, and midluteal phase). Another 16 women taking oral contraceptives served as age-matched controls, and were tested during menses and during phases corresponding to the pr...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Krug R,Pietrowsky R,Fehm HL,Born J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Adolescent Structured Interview (ASI), adapted from the interview that assesses Type A behavior of adults, was administered to 204 adolescents. These adolescents also completed a battery of self-report questionnaires that measured the three major components of Pattern A: competitive achievement-striving, speed and...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Siegel JM,Matthews KA,Leitch CJ

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review updates the literature on cultural differences in response to laboratory-induced pain. Thirteen studies were located, and there was great diversity among the investigations with regard to racial and ethnic groups studied, methods of pain induction, and experimental outcome. There appear to be no racial/eth...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Zatzick DF,Dimsdale JE

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study designed to identify the electrophysiologic characteristics of the Transcendental Meditation Program, 52 periods of spontaneous respiratory suspension (RS) were observed in 18 subjects during the practice of this program. These periods were correlated with some but not all the subjective experiences of pure...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Badawi K,Wallace RK,Orme-Johnson D,Rouzere AM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty women attending a family planning clinic completed assessments of their attributions for negative and positive mood states for an individual at different menstrual cycle stages. Negative moods occurring premenstrually were almost invariably viewed as related to health factors. Positive moods tended to be attribu...

journal_title：Psychosomatic medicine

authors： Bains GK,Slade P

更新日期：1988-09-01 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