A new stusy at University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, has found  that when faced with stressful situations, older adults who sleep poorly showed increased levels of a marker associated with inflammation.This marker, called interleukin-6 (IL-6), has been linked to a variety of health issues, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and psychiatric problems.
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Increased pain following surgery has long been linked to anxiety and “catastrophizing,” an extreme response to stress.
A new study presented today at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) concluded men with anxiety traits – a high level of anxiety unrelated to a stressful event – had higher post-operative pain […]

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A new study at Oregon State University 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.
The lead author of the study said that trying to keep major stress events to a minimum, being married and having a glass […]

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Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, found that women immune systems showed a strong response to chronic post-traumatic stress disorder, while men showed no response.
While a robust immune response protects the body from foreign invaders, such as bacteria and viruses, an over-activated response causes inflammation, which […]

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Acording to a report related to troops returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of soldiers are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and many more suffer without treatment. Among those who do seek treatment, doctors are finding another, distinctly different problem called traumatic brain injury, or TBI.
The two conditions have similar symptoms, […]

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Experts know little as to how the maternal environment alters offspring programming. Epigenetics, an area of research that is studying how environmental factors produce lasting changes in gene expression without altering DNA sequence, may provide new insights into this question.
A new review, published in Biological Psychiatry, has incorporated the latest insight gained from clinical and […]

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Men are more prone to the to post-traumatic stress disorder from ages 41 to 45, a new study finds.
The study was published July 20 in the Annals of General Psychiatry.

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According to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, older veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear more likely to develop dementia over a seven-year period than those without PTSD.
“The report suggests there are several reasons why patients with PTSD may have an increased risk of […]

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Researchers say that U.S. veterans continue to fight barriers as they seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder,
Statistics show that between 2002 and 2008, nearly 50,000 veterans from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars received diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder. But the study authors found. fewer than 10 percent of those completed the recommended treatment of 10 […]

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Recent research carried out by the consultancy firm Mercer found many more men could be suffering from stress in the workplace than is currently believed.
Acording to research conclusion some 11.4 million working days are lost each year in the UK as a result of stress or depression. Furthermore, the company’s report also noted that rates […]

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