Do psychosocial factors affect coronary atherosclerosis risk?(Tips)

American Family Physician;  September 15, 2006 ;   Lin, Kenneth W.;   511 words ......been suggested for the effects of psychosocial factors on the risk of coronary atherosclerosis...relationship between self-reported psychosocial factors and coronary calcium levels in adults...chronic stress burden. For each of the psychosocial factors, patients were divided into ...

How You Think, Feel, and Live Affects Your Heart, Says the Harvard Heart...

U.S. Newswire;  May 25, 2005 ;     376 words ......negative) outlook on life, and other psychosocial factors extend beyond affecting mood and...their contribution to heart attacks, psychosocial factors are on a par with smoking, high...especially reactive to further stress. Psychosocial factors have also been linked with factors...

Study finds link between psychosocial factors and cardio vascular diseases

The Hindustan Times;  January 23, 2007 ;     421 words ......Jan 23 -- According to a study, psychosocial factors, such as cynical distrust, chronic...graded associations between all three psychosocial factors and inflammatory markers. "The strongest...the IL-6 level. Associations of psychosocial factors with inflammatory markers were ...

Health behaviors in the elderly: Effects of age, gender, and psychosocial...

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development;  June 1, 1996 ;   Willias, Lee; Lee, O;   304 words ...PURPOSE-Empirical evidence shows that psychosocial factors may influence health outcomes by...determine whether associations between psychosocial factors and health behaviors hold for the...relationships between age, gender, psychosocial factors, and health-related behaviors in...

Associations of psychosocial factors with the stress of infertility...

Health and Social Work;  August 1, 2005 ;   Schneider, Myra G. Forthofer, Melinda S.;   787 words ......other populations suggests that psychosocial factors may play a role in mediating or...its consequences. We investigated psychosocial factors thought to be associated with perceived...to identify the extent to which psychosocial factors were associated with variation in...

Psychosocial Factors in Pain: Critical Perspectives.

Families, Systems & Health;  September 22, 2000 ;   Kirby, Karl A.;   616 words ...Psychosocial Factors in Pain: Critical Perspectives...research on pain. The impact of psychosocial factors in pain, as the title implies...setting in addressing pain. Psychosocial factors as predictors of response to...

Anxiety predicted MI rate in men during 10 years.(Myocardial...

Internal Medicine News;  April 15, 2006 ;   McNamara, Damian;   787 words ......most work has been done with other psychosocial factors like depression and hostility, Yael...addressing a possible association between psychosocial factors and heart disease. Other researchers...had was, can depression and other psychosocial factors explain this association? she ...

Elevated risk of MI seen in men who are anxious: a 10-year study of 740...

Clinical Psychiatry News;  June 1, 2006 ;   McNamara, Damian;   787 words ......because most work has been done with psychosocial factors like depression and hostility, Yael...addressing a possible association between psychosocial factors and heart disease. Other researchers...had was, can depression and other psychosocial factors explain this association? she ...

The influence of psychosocial obstacles (yellow and blue flags) on...

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery;  January 1, 2003 ;   Bartys, S; Burton, A K; Watson, P J; Wright, I; Et al;   359 words ...Background: The influence of psychosocial factors on absence rates is incompletely...study of the relationship between psychosocial factors and absence rates due to low back...included with a focus on occupational psychosocial factors, termed 'blue flags'. Validated...

African American college students' perceptions of psychosocial factors...

College Student Journal;  December 1, 2006 ;   Zekeri, Andrew A. Habtemariam, Tsegaye;   787 words ......college students' perceptions of psychosocial factors that influence racial disparities...patterns or the dimensionality of psychosocial factors identified by the students. Principal...more than 64% of the variance of psychosocial factors influencing racial disparities in...

Psychosocial Variables Associated with Back Pain in the Elderly: A...

Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy;  January 1, 2004 ;   Cook, Chad; Brismée, Jean-Michel; Sizer, Phillip S Jr;   787 words ......the association of psychosocial factors with experience of...influenced by selected psychosocial factors and that employment...factors. Keywords: psychosocial factors, low back pain, occupation...

Psychosocial job factors linked to musculoskeletal pain

Professional Safety;  May 1, 2001 ;   Anonymous;   163 words ......one-year study of Norwegian garage workers show that psychosocial factors at work-particularly low decision authority and low management...for on-the-job musculoskeletal disorders should include psychosocial factors, such as psychological demands, decision authority, and...

A biopsychosocial approach to chronic low back pain and disability in a...

The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association;  June 1, 2002 ;   Kevin A Parish;   787 words ......Physical factors as well as psychosocial factors play a role in the development of chronicity. In fact, psychosocial factors may be the most dominant...addressing both physical and psychosocial factors. This case study presents...

(book reviews)

Physical Therapy;  November 1, 1999 ;   Hardy, Patrick;   603 words ...Psychosocial Factors in Pain: Critical Perspectives...students understand the role that psychosocial factors play in both the etiology and...syndromes and emphasizes the role of psychosocial factors in both the etiology and treatment...

Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance: "Psychosocial Stress...

Journal of Dance Medicine & Science;  January 1, 2004 ;   Noh, W.E. Morris, T. Andersen, M.B.;   227 words ......This review article examines the theory and research on psychosocial factors affecting injury in sport and applies them to dance...dancer's career, is increased. Hence, the need to identify psychosocial factors that influence injuries in dance and to develop and test...