Heightened Psychobiological Reactivity to Laboratory Stressors in Healthy Women at Familial Risk for Breast Cancer

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 51-65

  Valdimarsdottir, Heiddis B ^a   Zakowski, Sandra G ^a   Gerin, William ^a   Mamakos, Jean ^a   Pickering, Thomas ^a   Bovbjerg, Dana H ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distress; Familial breast cancer risk; Heart rate; Natural killer cell activity; Reactivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; STRESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREAST TUMOR; GENETICS; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR;

LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036481536     PISSN: 01607715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013589718212     Document Type: Article

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