Women in strained marriages are more likely to feel depressed and suffer high blood pressure, obesity and other signs of "metabolic syndrome," a group of risk factors for heart disease, stroke and diabetes, University of Utah psychologists found.
The same study found men in strained marriages also are more likely to feel depressed, yet (more…)
Some overweight teenagers are more likely than normal weight teens to show symptoms of depression or anxiety, though there are differences by race and ethnicity, according to a study published in the February issue of Pediatrics, Reuters Health reports. The study, by Rhonda BeLue of Pennsylvania State University and colleagues, is based on a national survey of 35,184 parents (more…)
A laugh can be infectious. You don’t need a sophisticated study to tell you that. But does this happy contagion vanish as quickly as a smile?
New research from James Fowler of UC San Diego and Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School shows that happiness spreads far and wide through a social network traveling not just the well-known path from one person to another but even to people up to three degrees removed.
This holiday season, during (more…)
Thirty seven medical experts in psychiatry from across the
world have called on the medical community to take urgent action to optimize
services for people with a diagnosis of severe mental illness such as
schizophrenia or bipolar disorder(i).
Professor W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker, principal author of
Comorbid Somatic Illnesses in Patients with Severe Mental Disorders:
Clinical, Policy, and Research Challenges which was published in the Journal
of Clinical (more…)
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A new study reveals the first-ever genetic link between obesity and colon cancer risk, a finding that could lead to greater accuracy in testing for the disease, said a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
The discovery also may improve efforts to ward off colon cancer with obesity-fighting activities like exercise, weight loss and healthy eating.
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Obesity is a public health crisis within the general population; however, overweight and obesity issues are even more prevalent in persons with serious mental illness, according to a new report, scheduled to be released on October 3, 2008 by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD).
Findings and recommendations from the report appear in the September 22 issue (more…)
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