We investigated the joint mediating effects of injuries and stress on the relationship between abuse and women's health. A community sample of 397 women, half of whom had been assaulted by an intimate partner within the prior 6 months, was interviewed about their experience of intimate partner violence, injuries, stress, income, depression, and physical health problems. Structural equation mode...

Oxidative stress, an imbalance between the generation of reactive oxygen species and antioxidant defense capacity of the body, is closely associated with aging and a number of diseases including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and diabetic complications. Several mechanisms may cause oxidative insult in diabetes, although their exact contributions are not entirely clear. Accumulating e...

Psychological stress has been proposed as a major contributor to the progression of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Acute mental stress can activate the sympathetic-adrenal-medullary (SAM) axis, eliciting the release of catecholamines (NE and EPI) resulting in the elevation of heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP). Combined stress (psychological and physical) can exacerbate these cardiovascular...

Because of labor-intensive and physically demanding tasks, construction workers are known to be at a higher risk developing physical fatigue. Recent studies have shown that also often exposed considerable mental stresses. While number proposed methods tools measure monitor stress disjointedly, there is need explore their interaction. The literature indicates no previous study has endeavored eva...

Substantial progress in documenting the role of psychosocial stress in the etiology and development of physical and mental disease has been made in the past 10 years. Although the exact mechanisms with which stress impacts health are not fully understood, it is thought that the negative emotional and cognitive effects of stress alter the immune response and increase susceptibility to disease. S...

Physical task stress is known to affect the fundamental frequency of speech. This study of two American English vowels /IY/ and /AH/ investigates whether physical task stress affects the center frequencies of formants F1 and F2, and whether it affects the glottal open quotient, and whether these effects are different for different speakers, the different vowels, and two different vowel contexts...