http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Fish oil supplements may protect the heart in stressful situations, according to a recent research study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-fish-oil-lowers-stress-response.html Health Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:40:43 EST news290187635 The presence of posttraumatic stress disorder is significantly associated with the development of type 2 diabetes. This is the finding of scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University Hospital Gießen and Marburg who worked with data from the population-based KORA cohort study. A sustained activation of the hormonal stress axis due to chronic stress symptoms is most likely a major causing mechanism. The scientists have published their results in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-posttraumatic-stress-disorder-diabetes.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 16 May 2013 10:50:02 EST news287919593 Stressful situations at work can have a negative impact on the cardiovascular system and the metabolism. Stress, which is transmitted by direct and indirect signaling pathways, leads to an inflammatory response in the body, which can trigger cardiovascular diseases, amongst others. These results, which were achieved by scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München following their evaluation of data from a population-based cohort study, were published in the specialist journals Brain, Behavior, and Immunity and Psychosomatic Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-workplace-stress-poses-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:03:52 EST news285923026 An investigation in one of the last issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics addresses the evaluation of psychological stress in the setting of chronic cardiovascular disease. In a number of circumstances allostatic systems may either be overstimulated or not perform normally, and this condition has been termed 'allostatic load', or the price of adaptation. Findings from several studies suggest that it is associated with worse health conditions and plays a significant role in the susceptibility, course, and outcome of cardiovascular (CV) diseases. Recently, Fava and colleagues introduced clinimetric criteria for assessing allostatic overload syndrome (AOS) based on: (a) current identifiable sources of distress in the form of acute or chronic stress (the stressor is judged to tax or exceed the individual's coping skills when its full nature and circumstances are evaluated), and (b) psychiatric symptoms (DSM-IV) or psychosomatic symptoms (DCPR) or significant impairment in social or occupational functioning or in psychological well-being occurring within 6 months after the onset of the stressor. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-psychological-stress-chronic-cardiovascular-disease.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:13:24 EST news282888706 Work-related stress is not linked to the development of colorectal, lung, breast or prostate cancers, a study published today in BMJ suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-stress-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:30:02 EST news279472501 People suffering from chronic inflammatory conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and asthma—in which psychological stress plays a major role—may benefit from mindfulness meditation techniques, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientists with the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-mindfulness-meditation-relieve-chronic-inflammation.html Immunology Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:47:59 EST news277577269 While stress may be a factor in 60 to 80 percent of all visits to primary care physicians, only three percent of patients actually receive stress management counseling, say researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-stress-primary-rare.html Health Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:00:39 EST news272541438 (HealthDay)—New research suggests that surgical procedures, not stress, may lead to the spike in heart-related deaths known to occur in the weeks after a cancer diagnosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-surgery-spur-heart-deaths-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:20:01 EST news269714292 With Election Day 2012 just weeks away, a recent study provides scientific evidence that voting in national elections is actually a stressful event with measurable hormonal changes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-voting-national-elections-stress-emotional.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:02:12 EST news269175722 Fertility treatment has a strong emotional impact on women who want to have children. A study of European countries with the highest number of assisted reproduction cycles identifies which aspects of reproduction treatment contribute to psychological stress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-treatment-stress-women-fertility-therapy.html Health Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:19:52 EST news268481979 Could the impact of chronic stress explain why American black girls are more likely to be overweight than white girls? According to Dr. Tomiyama of the University of California, Los Angeles in the U.S., and her colleagues, higher levels of stress over 10 years predict greater increases in body weight over time in both black and white girls. However, the experience of chronic stress appears to have a greater negative effect on black girls' weight, which may explain racial disparities in obesity levels. The work is published online in Springer's journal, Annals of Behavioral Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-weight-gain-stressed-black-girls.html Health Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:06:21 EST news267275175 A new report involving mice suggests that a relationship exists between maternal metabolic or psychological stress and the development of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome in her offspring. What's more, the report shows that if the stress cannot be reduced or eliminated, manipulating the neuropeptide Y (NPY) system in visceral fat may prevent maternal stress-induced obesity from occurring in the next generation. This discovery is reported in the August 2012 issue of The FASEB Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-stress-pregnancy-abdominal-obesity-mice.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:52:19 EST news262950696 An ongoing survey of Ontario students in grades 7 to 12 conducted for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that while the majority of students have healthy relationships and report overall good mental and physical health, some negative trends, especially among girls, have raised concerns. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-male-ontario-students-declines-females.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:27:50 EST news262340862 Women with high job strain are 67% more likely to experience a heart attack and 38% more likely to have a cardiovascular event than their counterparts in low strain jobs, according to a study published July 18 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. The researchers, led by Dr. Michelle A. Albert of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, did not find any correlation between job insecurity and long-term cardiovascular disease risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-higher-job-strain-cardiovascular-women.html Cardiology Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:00:04 EST news261848992 Until now, comparing stress levels in individuals across the United States over time was not possible due to a lack of historical data that tracks stress using accepted comparable measures. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-stressed-adult-stress-.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:49:04 EST news258644936 Caring for a wife with breast cancer can have a measurable negative effect on men's health, even years after the cancer diagnosis and completion of treatment, according to recent research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-stress-wife-breast-cancer-health.html Health Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:26:35 EST news253797988 Stress wreaks havoc on the mind and body. For example, psychological stress is associated with greater risk for depression, heart disease and infectious diseases. But, until now, it has not been clear exactly how stress influences disease and health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-stress-disease-reveals-inflammation-culprit.html Immunology Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:00:09 EST news252585261 If stress is giving you high blood pressure, blame the immune system. T cells, helpful for fighting infections, are also necessary for mice to show an increase in blood pressure after a period of psychological stress, scientists have found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-stress-blood-pressure-blame-immune.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:12:24 EST news250161129 A new study shows pregnant women exposed to armed conflict have a higher risk of giving birth to underweight babies, a result that could change the way aid is delivered to developing countries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-birth-weights-armed-conflict.html Health Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:09:17 EST news246114552 Neuroscience researchers from Tufts have demonstrated, for the first time, that the physiological response to stress depends on neurosteroids acting on specific receptors in the brain, and they have been able to block that response in mice. This breakthrough suggests that these critical receptors may be drug therapy targets for control of the stress-response pathway. This finding may pave the way for new approaches to manage a wide range of neurological disorders involving stress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-mechanism-stress.html Neuroscience Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:00:17 EST news243016253 In patients with a devastating form of vasculitis who are in remission, stress can be associated with a greater likelihood of the disease flaring, according to a new study by investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-stress-triggers-disease-flares-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:20:01 EST news239784413 As the United States nears another election day, researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have determined scientifically, for the first time, that voting is a stressful event, inducing measurable hormonal changes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-voting-stress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:20:26 EST news235225198 The consequences of psychological stress, resulting from racial discrimination, may contribute to racial health disparities in conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other age-associated diseases. This is according to analyses of data from the epidemiologic study Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS)1, conducted by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-link-racial-discrimination-stress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:02:41 EST news235224112 People who have experienced maltreatment as children are twice as likely to develop both multiple and long-lasting depressive episodes as those without a history of childhood maltreatment, according to a new study. The research, led by a team at King's College London Institute of Psychiatry also found that maltreated individuals are more likely to respond poorly to pharmacological and psychological treatment for depression. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-childhood-maltreatment-linked-long-term-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:43:57 EST news232519414 A new study gauging the impact of consuming more fish oil showed a marked reduction both in inflammation and, surprisingly, in anxiety among a cohort of healthy young people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-omega-anxiety-inflammation-healthy-students.html Health Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:05:11 EST news229773884 There is increasing evidence from human and animal studies that offspring of parents who were physically or psychologically stressed are at higher risk of developing obesity, and that these offspring may in turn "transmit" that increased risk to the next generation. Now research conducted at the University of Minnesota and Georgetown University suggests that a mother's nutritional or psychological stress during pregnancy and lactation may create a signature on her child's genes that put the child at increased risk for obesity later in life, especially if the child is female. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-maternal-stress-pregnancy-affect-child.html Health Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:10:15 EST news221835597