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Stress may trigger flare-ups in women.(multiple sclerosis flare-ups)
2003 JAN 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Avoiding stressful life events and learning effective coping skills may help avert flare-ups of multiple sclerosis (MS) in women with the disease, new findings suggest.
Researchers recruited 23 women with MS from the Multiple Sclerosis Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and followed them for a year. Each week, the women completed questionnaires asking about MS symptoms and life events, such as starting a new job, finding out that a child is doing poorly in school, having a motor vehicle accident, and being physically assaulted.
Every 4 weeks, the women were interviewed about the nature and timing of life events they had experienced, and the life events data were later analyzed with the MS exacerbation data.
"A controversial issue in multiple sclerosis research concerns the extent to which psychological stress contributes to the development and progression of the disorder," wrote researcher Kurt D. Ackerman, MD, PhD, and coinvestigators in the departments of psychiatry, neurology, pathology and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.
"This study contributes to a growing body of evidence that stressful life events are potent triggers of disease activity in women with relapsing-remitting MS," they ...
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