Word: stress
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...with the incredible job, both are expected to be beautiful," says Kearney-Cooke, a co-author of Change Your Mind, Change Your Body: Feeling Good About Yourself After Age 40 (Atria Books; 268 pages). Societal pressure to remain thin well into one's 40s and 50s adds to the stress. "Thirty or 40 years ago, a woman who had a few children was expected to be 15 to 20 pounds heavier than she is now," observes Kearney-Cooke. "Many have difficulty dealing with issues related to aging, and there's a sense of 'I can't control my hormones...
Mike Fackelmann had no reason to think he had heart disease. Although his cholesterol was a touch on the high side, he had never experienced any chest pains and had just passed a stress test with flying colors. So last November, when a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Hospital asked the then 49-year-old registered nurse to help demonstrate an experimental new cardiac scanner, neither the physician nor Fackelmann expected to see anything out of the ordinary. The idea was simply to slide Fackelmann through the machine and show what finely detailed images of the heart it could...
...internal structures of the heart, and more than 9 million nuclear perfusion scans, which use mildly radioactive tracer molecules to measure how well the cardiac muscle is nourished. Improvements in computer processing power and software have made these tests more reliable and more conclusive than ever before. Stress tests, which help doctors detect ischemia, or lack of blood flow to the cardiac muscle, can be performed using either echocardiograms or nuclear scans. "Echocardiograms and nuclear perfusion scanning are the bread and butter of cardiac care," says Dr. Pamela Douglas, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham...
...Salvador took possession last week of a 70-acre Arizona ranch as part of a civil judgment against a vigilante leader who allegedly threatened them with a gun when he caught them sneaking into the U.S. in March 2003. The immigrants said the ordeal left them with posttraumatic stress, a condition that seems to be spreading fast on the Mexico-U.S. boundary. To wit: Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano declared a state of emergency last week because, she said, "the Federal Government has failed" to secure the border. Three days earlier, fellow Democratic Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico took...
...than the perpetrators of violence. The other myth is that somehow, this is a by-product of bad parenting. The research shows is that mental illness has a genetic component. So it's more a DNA thing than a parenting thing, although there are environmental factors and triggers, and stress triggers and trauma triggers and drug triggers as well...