Ten Surprising Facts About Stressful Life Events and Disease Risk

Some surprising facts about (the problem of) surprising facts (from the Dusseldorf Conference, February 2011).

A common intuition about evidence is that if data x have been used to construct a hypothesis H, then x should not be used again in support of H. It is no surprise that x fits H, if H was deliberately constructed to accord with x. The question of when and why we should avoid such "double-counting" continues to be debated in philosophy and statistics. It arises as a prohibition against data minin...

Stressful life events and risk of symptomatic kidney stones.

BACKGROUND It has been reported that a substantial proportion of cases of hypercalciuria and nephrolithiasis are idiopathic. Several studies suggested that stressful life events increase lithogenic urinary constituents (calcium, oxalate and uric acid). OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that there is an association between stressful life events and symptomatic kidney stone. METHODS A case-con...

Presumptive Stressful Life Events Scale (psles) — a New Stressful Life Events Scale for Use in India

Using an open ended question along with Holme's and Rahe's Social Readjustment Rating Schedule on a sample of two hundred adult subjects, a suitable scale of stressful life events experienced by the Indian population was constructed and standardized for two time spaces, that is, last one year and life time. Analysis of various demographic variables for this population revealed no differences on...

Stressful life events and childhood illness.

The use of DNA probes to monitor minimal residual disease in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. A. The polymerase chain reaction: a new tool for the detection of minimal residual disease in hae-matological malignancies. Tournay 0, et al. Detection of minimal disease in hematopoietic malignancies of the B lineage by using third-complimentarity-determining region (CDR-III) specific probes. ...

Preterm Birth and Stressful Life Events