BIOC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Coronary Artery Disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Cardiovascular Disease
15 Apr 2015
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Health psych - how psych principles applies to study of physical health & illness. Glucocorticoids - stress hormones released from adrenal glands: suppresses immune function, glucocorticoid levels asso in gad, depression. & rheumatoid sclerosis & rheumatoid arthritis: depression symptoms caused (ex. Lethargy) as adaptive means to conserve energy for use by immune system. Psychosomatic disorder - physical illness brought on by psychological factors. Hypochondria - imagined illness with no physical basis. Psychophysiological illness - an illness in which the physiological symptoms are influenced by mental processes: often no physical causes, but symptoms appear in certain psychological states, may be acute or chronic. Hypertension: r % of depression / anxiety disorders patients have hypertension, specific relationship between hypertension & psychopathologies, e. g. schizophrenia not associated w hypertension. Acute cardiovascular disease: 3 most common types, coronary heart disease, stroke, heart failure, no form of psychopathology directly linked, but hypertension risk of acute cardiovascular disease o.
