Psychological stress and disease.

@article{Cohen2007PsychologicalSA,
  title={Psychological stress and disease.},
  author={Sheldon Cohen and Denise Janicki-Deverts and Gregory E. Miller},
  journal={JAMA},
  year={2007},
  volume={298 14},
  pages={
          1685-7
        }
}
DESPITE WIDESPREAD PUBLIC BELIEF THAT PSYCHOlogical stress leads to disease, the biomedical community remains skeptical of this conclusion. In this Commentary, we discuss the plausibility of the belief that stress contributes to a variety of disease processes and summarize the role of stress in 4 major diseases: clinical depression, cardiovascular disease (CVD), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS, and cancer. 
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