Mental pressure effects for women with multiple sclerosis
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has carried out a research with 23 female patients with multiple sclerosis for as long as one year follow-up investigation. The survey found that to avoid a stressful life, to master the skills to ease stress, help to reduce the deterioration of women’s symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
Weekly, the researchers asked them to fill out the questionnaire. Contents of the questionnaire, including MS symptoms and their daily encounters, which involve whether to begin a new job, kids in school, poor performance, whether a traffic accident, whether by attacks.
Month, the researchers interviewed with them once a subject of conversation around these daily chores, the timing and nature, and then the information with their symptoms worsen the data were analyzed.
“The psychological pressure and the relationship between multiple sclerosis, it has been controversial,” Kut. Ackerman, and from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry, neurology department, pathology department and the Department of Psychology researchers wrote .
“This study stresses give rise to women’s assumption of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis provide evidence,” they then wrote, “the deterioration of multiple sclerosis can be delayed to ease the pressure of life or to avoid.”
Their findings, published in the “spirit in Physiology or Medicine” magazine 11/12 issue.
During the year, the deterioration of these respondents, the average frequency of symptoms was 2.6 times the average duration of 29 days. 85% of the symptoms worsen with its nearly six weeks of life stress-related.
The results also show that, although the causes of stress are different in varying degrees, they are symptoms of deterioration in the patient is the same. In addition, the researchers found that stress on the role of multiple sclerosis symptoms worsen immediate impact, from the symptoms of stress and to the deterioration of the average time required is 14 days.
Patients with multiple sclerosis is generally young adults, it is a lifelong neurological disease. Neurotic disorders and stroke, according to research institutions in the country, said there are 350,000 U.S. patients with multiple sclerosis, and every week there are nearly 200 new patients. Usually a female incidence of multiple sclerosis, the incidence rate among men nearly twice.
The study was funded by National Institutes of Health funding.
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