Psychological Stress and Disease
JAMAPublished 9 October 2007
Sheldon Cohen, Denise Janicki‐Deverts, Gregory E. Miller
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The plausibility of the belief that stress contributes to a variety of disease processes is discussed and the role of stress in 4 major diseases: clinical depression, cardiovascular disease, human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS, and cancer is summarized.
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Despite widespread public belief that psychological stress leads to disease, the biomedical community remains skeptical of this conclusion. In this Commentary, we discuss the plausibility of the belief that stress contributes to a variety of disease processes and summarize the role of stress in 4 major diseases: clinical depression, cardiovascular disease (CVD), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS, and cancer.
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