| Literature DB >> 1583681 |
B T Thomason1, P J Brantley, G N Jones, H R Dyer, J L Morris.
Abstract
This study investigated the relation between stress and current disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). During a routine clinic appointment, subjects were given ratings of global disease status by their physicians and completed self-report measures of major stress and minor stress. In addition, each subject's erythrocyte sedimentation rate was taken. After controlling for disease severity and major stress, minor stress accounted for a significant amount of the variance in inflammation level. These results suggest that minor stress is associated with current disease activity in RA.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID: 1583681 DOI: 10.1007/bf00848326
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Behav Med ISSN: 0160-7715