News tagged with stressful events
Reducing post-traumatic stress after intensive care unit
Women are more likely to suffer post-traumatic stress than men after leaving an intensive care unit (ICU), finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care. However, psychological and physic ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 13, 2012 |
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Mental stress may be harder on women's hearts
Coronary artery disease continues to be a major cause of death in the U.S., killing hundreds of thousands of people per year. However, this disease burden isn't evenly divided between the sexes; significantly more men than ...
Cardiology
Apr 26, 2012 |
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Emergency dispatchers suffer from symptoms of PTSD, study reveals
Dispatchers who answer 911 and 999 emergency calls suffer emotional distress which can lead to symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a new study reports. The research, published in the Journal of Traumatic St ...
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Mar 29, 2012 |
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ED chest pain units and physician discretion may lower stress test use
Rhode Island Hospital physicians report that managing chest pain patients within an emergency department chest pain unit by both emergency medicine staff and cardiologists is safe and effective and may lower the use of stress ...
Cardiology
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Anticipation of stressful situations accelerates cellular aging
The ability to anticipate future events allows us to plan and exert control over our lives, but it may also contribute to stress-related increased risk for the diseases of aging, according to a study by UCSF researchers.
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Feb 21, 2012 |
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Is there really such a thing as a broken heart?
On Valentine's Day, people who have been unlucky in love are sometimes said to suffering from a "broken heart."
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Feb 08, 2012 |
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Researchers find negative social interactions can lead to increased amounts of internal inflammation
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the University of California have found that negative social interactions can cause internal inflammation that may over time lead to possible health consequences. In the study, the results ...
Medical research
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Sleep preserves and enhances unpleasant emotional memories
A recent study by sleep researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first to suggest that a person's emotional response after witnessing an unsettling picture or traumatic event is greatly ...
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Jan 17, 2012 |
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Anti-depressant use soars in England, linked to recession
The use of anti-depressant drugs in England has soared by 28 percent in the past three years, coinciding with the country's fall into recession and the global economic crisis, new figures showed Friday.
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Dec 30, 2011 |
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Stress response predictor in police officers may be relevant for military
(Medical Xpress) -- Police academy recruits who showed the greatest rise in the stress hormone cortisol after waking up in the morning were more likely to show acute stress symptoms in response to trauma years later as police ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 09, 2011 |
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Post-traumatic stress risk to police officers lower than previously thought
Although police officers are at a high risk of experiencing traumatic events (TE) in their work, they are no more likely than the general population to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These are the findings ...
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Nov 22, 2011 |
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Financial reimbursement increases cardiac stress tests
Patients treated by physicians who billed for both technical (practice/equipment) and professional (supervision/ interpretation) components of nuclear and echocardiographic stress imaging tests were more likely to undergo ...
Cardiology
Nov 08, 2011 |
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High to moderate levels of stress lead to higher mortality rate
A new study concludes that men who experience persistently moderate or high levels of stressful life events over a number of years have a 50 percent higher mortality rate.
Health
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Voting causes stress: study
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.
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Sep 14, 2011 |
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Genetic role in post-traumatic stress
When she first sought help at the UNSW Traumatic Stress Clinic, it was clear that Helen Fraser (not her real name) was in a bad way. A survivor of the appalling 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, she could not shake ...
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Sep 08, 2011 |
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