OBJECTIVE To define the prevalence and pathophysiology of myocardial ischaemia induced by mental stress in patients with coronary artery disease and exercise inducible ischaemia, and to determine the correlation between the severity of coronary artery disease and ischaemia induced by speech. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Tertiary care academic institution. PATIENTS AND PROTOCOL: ...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine the effect of nifedipine gastrointestinal therapeutic system (GITS) or atenolol on ischemic left ventricular dysfunction induced by mental stress. BACKGROUND The efficacy of conventional antianginal therapy in preventing myocardial ischemia induced by mental stress is unknown. METHODS Nifedipine GITS, atenolol and placebo were administered to 15 subjects wi...

Mental health problem and maladaptive behavior, such as suicidal behavior, are prevalent among Chinese students, which can be significantly triggered by their high levels of academic stress. Underutilization of mental health services among Chinese adolescents have also been identified by researchers. In this paper, an attempt has been made to utilize Psychological Stress Theory (PST) to help ex...

BACKGROUND The role of social and family environments in the development of mental health problems among children and youth has been widely investigated. However, the degree to which parental working conditions may impact on developmental psychopathology has not been thoroughly studied. METHODS We conducted a case-control study of several mental health outcomes of 19,833 children of sawmill w...

Inflammation is associated with poorer vascular function, with evidence to suggest that inflammation can also impair the vascular responses to mental stress. This study examined the effects of vaccine-induced inflammation on vascular responses to mental stress in healthy participants. Eighteen male participants completed two stress sessions: an inflammation condition having received a typhoid v...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of hyperventilation and mental stress on coronary blood flow and symptom production in patients with syndrome X. DESIGN A prospective study. Hyperventilation and mental stress tests were performed on the ward and were repeated in the cardiac catheter laboratory where coronary blood flow velocity was also measured with an intracoronary Doppler catheter in the le...

This paper provides an overview of research into mental health problem and occupational stress among Chinese doctors in recent 10 years. It indicates that doctors in general hospitals have worse mental status. Occupational stress comes from over workload, high demanding from patients, occupational risk, effort-reward imbalance and fierce competition for job promotion. For medical staffs battlin...

The present study examined whether salivary cortisol secretion as an index of stress reactivity to continuous mental task performance reflected individual differences in coping styles. During 4 hr of continuous mental tasks significantly higher cortisol levels were found in comparison with a control session. However, individual variability in the cortisol response was high. Correlational data i...

BACKGROUND There is now considerable evidence from around the world that racism is associated with both mental and physical ill-health. However, little is known about the mediating factors between racism and ill-health. This paper investigates relationships between racism and self-assessed mental and physical health among Indigenous Australians as well as potential mediators of these relationsh...

objective: in the last 30 years, ever since the phc network in iran has been established, the job duties of behvarzes (mental health workers in rural areas) have been constantly increasing. the aim of this study was to determine the burnout level, mental health status and the severity of occupational stress among behvarzes. methods: all behvarzes (227) working in areas covered by iran universit...