Negative emotions predict elevated interleukin-6 in the United States but not in Japan

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 34, Issue , 2013, Pages 79-85

  Miyamoto, Yuri ^a   Boylan, Jennifer Morozink ^a   Coe, Christopher L ^a   Curhan, Katherine B ^b   Levine, Cynthia S ^b   Markus, Hazel Rose ^b   Park, Jiyoung ^c   Kitayama, Shinobu ^c   Kawakami, Norito ^d   Karasawa, Mayumi ^e   Love, Gayle D ^f   Ryff, Carol D ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e TOKYO WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Inflammation; Interleukin 6; Negative emotion

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMOTION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGATIVE EMOTION; NEUROSIS; POSITIVE EMOTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

CULTURE; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; NEGATIVE EMOTION;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885035305     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2013.07.173     Document Type: Article

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