Some 8059 healthy women (mean age 58 years) were studied in 1973 with the aim of establishing the presence or absence of a variety of physical and psychological risk factors for mammary cancer. Mortality was established in 1988. factor predictors were highly significant. Physical risk factors were more predictive than psychological ones, but both interacted synergistically to predict mortality....

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to investigate the relationship between levels of depression and anxiety symptoms and quality of life, self-esteem in obesity. METHODS Fifty-two subjects whose Body Mass Index (BMI) is 30 kg/m2 and over and 43 control whose BMI is normal were recruited for this study. The socio demographic data form, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D17), Hamilton Anxiety Ra...

This article reviews evidence for three mechanisms whereby psychological factors may aggravate dizziness and retard recovery from balance disorders. Firstly, a common behavioral response to dizziness is to avoid activities and environments that provoke symptoms, yet such avoidance deprives the individual of the exposure necessary to promote psychological and neurophysiological adaptation. Secon...

This paper reviews recent psychological studies of patients with the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or 'functional abdominal pain'. Many studies have used unreliable or invalid methods of assessment and some have confused personality with treatable psychiatric illness. Reliable and valid measures have indicated that 40-50% of patients with recently diagnosed functional abdominal pain have demon...

In the past computer systems were primarily used by the programmers who designed them, and the facilities provided were those appropriate to their needs. Although these systems functioned efficiently, they were only suitable for use by computer professionals. As costs have decreased, computers have become widely used by people with no previous experience of them. Unfortunately many systems are ...

Investigated demographic and psychological factors related to positive or negative reactions to legal abortions performed during the first trimester of pregnancy in 62 females in an urban southern community. Results suggest that the social context and the degree of support from a series of significant persons rather than demographic variables were most predictive of a positive reaction.

This paper was commissioned by the Foresight programme of the Office of Science and Innovation, Department of Trade and Industry © 2007 Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO; published with permission Journal compilation © 2007 The International Association for the Study of Obesity. obesity reviews 8 (Suppl. 1) , 123–125 123 OnlineOpen: This article is available free online at www.blackwell-sy...

To the Editor: Rozanski et al,1 in discussing the role of psychological factors in inducing ischemic heart disease (IHD), indicated that “the pathophysiological mechanisms by which behavior therapies reduce cardiac events need to be identified.” I suggest that behavior therapies operate to prevent stress-induced IHD by countering mechanisms by which stress induces IHD. The recently described al...

We investigate stock option exercise decisions by over 50,000 employees at seven corporations. Controlling for economic factors, psychological factors inuence exercise. Consistent with psychological models of beliefs, employees exercise in response to stock price trends—exercise is positively related to stock returns during the preceding month and negatively related to returns over longer hori...