Double-Exposure to Acute Stress and Chronic Family Stress is Associated With Immune Changes in Children With Asthma
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Double-exposure to acute stress and chronic family stress is associated with immune changes in children with asthma.
OBJECTIVE To understand how psychological stress heightens risk for asthma flare-ups, we examined the relationship between acute stress, chronic family stress, and the production of asthma-related cytokines. METHODS Seventy-one children with asthma and 76 medically healthy children completed interviews regarding life stress, and peripheral blood samples were collected. After mononuclear cells...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychosomatic Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0033-3174
DOI: 10.1097/psy.0b013e318199dbc3