The sky is falling article here:
Showing posts with label hostility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hostility. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
How Does Marijuana Affect the Brain and Behavior? Here's What Recent Studies Say
My God, anything to put a negative spin on marijuana. We already know that young brains aren't fully developed until 26-28, so unless we know the age of the participants this may not be a valid conclusion. We'll never know because we have NO stroke strategy or stroke leadership in any part of stroke. But Reefer Madness strikes again.
The sky is falling article here:
The sky is falling article here:
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Chronic stress, depressive symptoms, anger, hostility, and risk of stroke and transient ischemic attack in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis
So you will need to not be in the 23% of survivors that get PTSD and will need to skip the anger stage in the stages of grief. I'm sure your doctor will be no help in ameliorating these.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25013018
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25013018
Everson-Rose SA1, Roetker NS2, Lutsey PL2, Kershaw KN2, Longstreth WT Jr2, Sacco RL2, Diez Roux AV2, Alonso A2.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:
This study investigated chronic stress, depressive symptoms, anger, and hostility in relation to incident stroke and transient ischemic attacks in middle-aged and older adults.METHODS:
Data were from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a population-based cohort study of 6749 adults, aged 45 to 84 years and free of clinical cardiovascular disease at baseline, conducted at 6 US sites. Chronic stress, depressive symptoms, trait anger, and hostility were assessed with standard questionnaires. The primary outcome was clinically adjudicated incident stroke or transient ischemic attacks during a median follow-up of 8.5 years.RESULTS:
One hundred ninety-five incident events (147 strokes; 48 transient ischemic attacks) occurred during follow-up. A gradient of increasing risk was observed for depressive symptoms, chronic stress, and hostility (all P for trend ≤0.02) but not for trait anger (P>0.10). Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals indicated significantly elevated risk for the highest-scoring relative to the lowest-scoring group for depressive symptoms (HR, 1.86; 95% confidence interval, 1.16-2.96), chronic stress (HR, 1.59; 95% confidence interval, 1.11-2.27), and hostility (HR, 2.22; 95% confidence interval, 1.29-3.81) adjusting for age, demographics, and site. HRs were attenuated but remained significant in risk factor-adjusted models. Associations were similar in models limited to stroke and in secondary analyses using time-varying variables.CONCLUSIONS:
Higher levels of stress, hostility, and depressive symptoms are associated with significantly increased risk of incident stroke or transient ischemic attacks in middle-aged and older adults. Associations are not explained by known stroke risk factors.Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Chronic stress, depressive symptoms, anger, hostility, and risk of stroke and transient ischemic attack in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis
They could have just said, 'We know nothing about stroke and don't care. It's not our problem'.
http://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/newsl-article.cfm/5436283/ZZF307965849E94474BB34FC062CEC0F93/?
This study investigated chronic stress, depressive symptoms, anger, and hostility in relation to incident stroke and transient ischemic attacks in middle–aged and older adults. Higher levels of stress, hostility, and depressive symptoms are associated with significantly increased risk of incident stroke or transient ischemic attacks in middle–aged and older adults. Associations are not explained by known stroke risk factors.
(Then do some f*cking work and figure out what the risk factor is. God are people lazy. My guess is that these all cause inflammation and inflammation is a known risk factor.)
Methods
http://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/newsl-article.cfm/5436283/ZZF307965849E94474BB34FC062CEC0F93/?
This study investigated chronic stress, depressive symptoms, anger, and hostility in relation to incident stroke and transient ischemic attacks in middle–aged and older adults. Higher levels of stress, hostility, and depressive symptoms are associated with significantly increased risk of incident stroke or transient ischemic attacks in middle–aged and older adults. Associations are not explained by known stroke risk factors.
(Then do some f*cking work and figure out what the risk factor is. God are people lazy. My guess is that these all cause inflammation and inflammation is a known risk factor.)
Methods
- Data were from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a population-based cohort study of 6749 adults, aged 45 to 84 years and free of clinical cardiovascular disease at baseline, conducted at 6 US sites.
- Chronic stress, depressive symptoms, trait anger, and hostility were assessed with standard questionnaires.
- The primary outcome was clinically adjudicated incident stroke or transient ischemic attacks during a median follow-up of 8.5 years.
- One hundred ninety-five incident events (147 strokes; 48 transient ischemic attacks) occurred during follow-up.
- A gradient of increasing risk was observed for depressive symptoms, chronic stress, and hostility (all P for trend ≤0.02) but not for trait anger (P>0.10).
- Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals indicated significantly elevated risk for the highest-scoring relative to the lowest-scoring group for depressive symptoms (HR, 1.86; 95% confidence interval, 1.16–2.96), chronic stress (HR, 1.59; 95% confidence interval, 1.11–2.27), and hostility (HR, 2.22; 95% confidence interval, 1.29–3.81) adjusting for age, demographics, and site.
- HRs were attenuated but remained significant in risk factor–adjusted models.
- Associations were similar in models limited to stroke and in secondary analyses using time-varying variables.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
High stress, hostility, depression linked with increased stroke risk
You will need to demand that your doctor reduce your stress about recovering by laying out an exact plan and protocols to get to 100% recovery. Also take those anti-depressants which are so good for your stroke recovery.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=143534&CultureCode=en
Higher levels of stress, hostility and depressive symptoms are associated with significantly increased risk of stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) in middle-age and older adults, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.
A TIA is a stroke caused by a temporary blockage of blood flow to the brain.
Researchers investigated how psychological factors might influence risk for chronic disease, using data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), an ongoing study on cardiovascular disease risk factors in participants living in six U.S. cities.
More than 6,700 adults (ages 45-84; 53 percent women) completed questionnaires assessing chronic stress, depressive symptoms, anger and hostility over two years. Participants were 38.5 percent white, 27.8 percent African-American, 11.8 percent Chinese and 21.9 percent Hispanic. All were free of cardiovascular disease at the start of the study.
In follow-up for an additional 8.5 to 11 years, 147 strokes and 48 TIAs occurred.
Compared to people with the lowest psychological scores, those with highest scores were:
“There’s such a focus on traditional risk factors — cholesterol levels, blood pressure, smoking and so forth — and those are all very important, but studies like this one show that psychological characteristics are equally important,” said Susan Everson-Rose, Ph.D., M.P.H., study lead author and associate professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
These associations noted in the study were significant even when researchers accounted for age, race, sex, health behaviors and other known risk factors of stroke.
“Given our aging population, it’s important to consider these other factors that might play a role in disease risk. Stroke is a disease of the elderly predominantly, and so learning more about things that can influence risk for stroke as people age is important.”
Researchers measured chronic stress in five domains: personal health problems, health problems of others close to the participant, job or ability to work, relationships and finances.
They assessed depressive symptoms with a 20-question scale and analyzed anger with a 10-item scale that captured the extent and frequency of experiencing that emotion. Hostility, which is a negative way of viewing the world, was measured by assessing a person’s cynical expectations of other people’s motives.
“One thing we didn’t assess is coping strategies,” Everson-Rose said. “If someone is experiencing depressive symptoms or feeling a lot of stress or hostility, we don’t know how they manage those, so it’s possible that positive coping strategies could ameliorate some of these associations or effects,” she said. “We did not inquire about coping. I would say that’s one of the tasks for future studies.”
Researchers didn’t identify potential racial and ethnic differences or sex differences in the observed associations, but were not able to fully examine such differences due to the smaller numbers of strokes in some groups.
Co-authors are Nicholas Roetker, B.A.; Pamela Lutsey, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Kiarri Kershaw, Ph.D., M.P.H.; W.T. Longstreth Jr., M.D., M.P.H.; Ralph Sacco, M.D., M.S.; Ana Diez Roux, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.; Alvaro Alonso, M.D., Ph.D. Author disclosures are on the manuscript.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=143534&CultureCode=en
Higher levels of stress, hostility and depressive symptoms are associated with significantly increased risk of stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) in middle-age and older adults, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.
A TIA is a stroke caused by a temporary blockage of blood flow to the brain.
Researchers investigated how psychological factors might influence risk for chronic disease, using data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), an ongoing study on cardiovascular disease risk factors in participants living in six U.S. cities.
More than 6,700 adults (ages 45-84; 53 percent women) completed questionnaires assessing chronic stress, depressive symptoms, anger and hostility over two years. Participants were 38.5 percent white, 27.8 percent African-American, 11.8 percent Chinese and 21.9 percent Hispanic. All were free of cardiovascular disease at the start of the study.
In follow-up for an additional 8.5 to 11 years, 147 strokes and 48 TIAs occurred.
Compared to people with the lowest psychological scores, those with highest scores were:
- 86 percent more likely to have a stroke or TIA for high depressive symptoms.
- 59 percent more likely to have a stroke or TIA for the highest chronic stress scores.
- More than twice as likely to have a stroke or TIA for the highest hostility scores.
“There’s such a focus on traditional risk factors — cholesterol levels, blood pressure, smoking and so forth — and those are all very important, but studies like this one show that psychological characteristics are equally important,” said Susan Everson-Rose, Ph.D., M.P.H., study lead author and associate professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
These associations noted in the study were significant even when researchers accounted for age, race, sex, health behaviors and other known risk factors of stroke.
“Given our aging population, it’s important to consider these other factors that might play a role in disease risk. Stroke is a disease of the elderly predominantly, and so learning more about things that can influence risk for stroke as people age is important.”
Researchers measured chronic stress in five domains: personal health problems, health problems of others close to the participant, job or ability to work, relationships and finances.
They assessed depressive symptoms with a 20-question scale and analyzed anger with a 10-item scale that captured the extent and frequency of experiencing that emotion. Hostility, which is a negative way of viewing the world, was measured by assessing a person’s cynical expectations of other people’s motives.
“One thing we didn’t assess is coping strategies,” Everson-Rose said. “If someone is experiencing depressive symptoms or feeling a lot of stress or hostility, we don’t know how they manage those, so it’s possible that positive coping strategies could ameliorate some of these associations or effects,” she said. “We did not inquire about coping. I would say that’s one of the tasks for future studies.”
Researchers didn’t identify potential racial and ethnic differences or sex differences in the observed associations, but were not able to fully examine such differences due to the smaller numbers of strokes in some groups.
Co-authors are Nicholas Roetker, B.A.; Pamela Lutsey, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Kiarri Kershaw, Ph.D., M.P.H.; W.T. Longstreth Jr., M.D., M.P.H.; Ralph Sacco, M.D., M.S.; Ana Diez Roux, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.; Alvaro Alonso, M.D., Ph.D. Author disclosures are on the manuscript.
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