Psychological Stress and Disease
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- 10 October 2007
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 298 (14), 1685-1687
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.298.14.1685
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 cancerKeywords
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