October 9, 2007
Psychological Stress and Disease
Key Points
- This commentary evaluates the connection between psychological stress and various diseases, questioning skepticism in the biomedical community.
- Discussion of stress's contribution to disease processes in major health conditions.
- Analysis of existing literature on psychological stress and disease correlations.
- Psychological stress is implicated in clinical depression, cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, and cancer.
- Stress potentially exacerbates disease processes, influencing health outcomes across these conditions.
Abstract
Despite widespread public belief that psychological stress leads to disease, the biomedical community remains skeptical of this conclusion. In this Commentary, we discuss the plausibility of the belief that stress contributes to a variety of disease processes and summarize the role of stress in 4 major diseases: clinical depression, cardiovascular disease (CVD), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS, and cancer.
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Authors
Sheldon Cohen
Carnegie Mellon University
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Denise Janicki‐Deverts
Carnegie Mellon University
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Gregory E. Miller
Northwestern University
Journals
JAMA
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Institutions
University of British Columbia
Carnegie Mellon University
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