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Types of stressors that increase susceptibility to the common cold in healthy adults.
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Two-hundred seventy-six volunteers completed a life stressor interview and psychological questionnaires and provided blood and urine samples. They were then inoculated with common cold viruses and monitored for the onset of disease. Although severe acute stressful life events (less than 1 month long) were not associated with developing colds, severe chronic stressors (1 month or longer) were associated with a substantial increase in risk of disease. This relation was attributable primarily to under- or unemployment and to enduring interpersonal difficulties with family or friends. The association between chronic stressors and susceptibility to colds could not be fully explained by differences among stressed and nonstressed persons in social network characteristics, personality, health practices, or prechallenge endocrine or immune measures.
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“A series of studies have shown that chronic stress is associated with increased susceptibility to developing a common cold among persons experimentally exposed to an upper respiratory virus (e.g., refs.[14][15][16][17].”
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“Although attempts to identify behavioral pathways linking stress to cold susceptibility have not been especially successful (14,15)”
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“However, cortisol levels based on 24-h urine (15) and waking diurnal assessments in saliva (19,20) do not play a part in this process.”
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“in a multiple logistic regression, exposure to a recent major stressful life event was associated with an increased risk for developing a cold following exposure to RV (OR = 1.99,CI = 1.04, 3.08).”
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- Authors
- Cohen, S., Frank, E., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., Rabin, B. S., & Gwaltney, J. M.
- Venue
- Health Psychology
- Published
- 1998
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 214-223
- ISSN
- 0278-6133 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-7810
- OpenAlex
- W4231424071
- Cited by
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- FWCI
- 5.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
- KiltHub Repository (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Respiratory viral infections research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response
- Keywords
- common cold, chronic stress, life events, infection susceptibility, underemployment, unemployment, interpersonal problems, social networks, immune function, psychological stress, viral inoculation
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