Journal ArticleProg Cardiovasc Dis · 2024
OBJECTIVES: Exercise has been promoted as a treatment for a variety of psychiatric conditions. The benefits of exercise for depression are widely recognized, but the benefits of exercise for anxiety are uncertain. Although several reviews promoted exercise ...
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Journal ArticleTranspl Int · May 2018
Depressive symptoms are common among lung transplant candidates and have been associated with poorer clinical outcomes in some studies. Previous studies have been plagued by methodologic problems, including small sample sizes, few clinical events, and unco ...
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Journal ArticleTransplant Direct · April 2018
BACKGROUND: Neurological complications are common after lung transplantation. However, no large cohort studies have examined the incidence, predictors, and clinical significance of neurological events sustained by lung transplant recipients. METHODS: We co ...
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Journal ArticlePsychosomatics · 2018
BACKGROUND: Anxiety is common in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and is associated with an increased risk for adverse outcomes. There has been a relative paucity of studies concerning treatment of anxiety in patients with CHD. OBJECTIVE: We cond ...
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Journal ArticleProg Cardiovasc Dis · 2017
Although healthy lifestyles (HL) offer a number of health benefits, nonadherence to recommended lifestyle changes remains a frequent and difficult obstacle to realizing these benefits. Behavioral counseling can improve adherence to an HL. However, individu ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Behav Med · August 2015
BACKGROUND: Exercise has been shown to reduce symptoms of anxiety, but few studies have studied exercise in individuals preselected because of their high anxiety. PURPOSE: The objective of this study is to review and critically evaluate studies of exercise ...
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Journal ArticleJ Heart Lung Transplant · August 2015
BACKGROUND: The Pulmonary-specific Quality-of-Life Scale (PQLS) was developed to measure quality of life (QoL) among patients awaiting lung transplant. The objective of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the PQLS, identify empirical ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pain Symptom Manage · June 2012
CONTEXT: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited hematological disease marked by intense pain. Early in life the pain is episodic, but it becomes increasingly chronic in many cases. Little is known about this emergence of a chronic pain state. OBJECTIVES ...
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Journal ArticleClin J Pain · October 2006
OBJECTIVE: Pain-related coping strategies, especially catastrophizing, play an influential role in shaping pain responses. However, although numerous studies have examined the impact of catastrophizing on chronic pain outcomes, relatively few have evaluate ...
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Journal ArticleSleep · July 2005
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Sleep-deprivation experiments suggest that sleep loss increases pain sensitivity. It is unclear from preliminary studies, however, whether sleep-related processes are directly associated with pain perception or whether hyperalgesia is due ...
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