SDS 3482 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Antigen
14 Sep 2017
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Hot reactors: people reacting to stress with total physiological reaction. Psychosomatic disease: mind and body, psychophysiological, manifested physically, can be diagnosed, psychogenic. Mind increasing body"s susceptibility to disease-causing microbes. Immunological system: stress decreases white blood cell count, disease prone personalities, positive moods enhance immunosuppressive e ects. Cholesterol: accumulates on blood vessel walls, blocks blood ow, stress can increase serum cholesterol (bad) Hypertension: excess pressure of blood in arteries. Thursday, september 7, 2017: hemorrhage or heart attack. Stroke: lack of oxygen to brain. Coronary heart disease: high cholesterol, hypertension, and cigarettes, type a. Ulcers: cuts in walls of stomach or intestines. Migraines: constriction and dilation of the carotid arteries of one side of the head, emotional stress and tension. Allergies, asthma, and hay fever: antigen: foreign substance irritating body, antibody: produced by body to ght antigen, stress decreases ability to ght antigen. Rheumatoid arthritis: in ammation and swelling in joints, autoimmune response.
