K H Ladwig

..These findings suggest a possible synergistic effect of obesity and depressive mood on chronic low level inflammation which may play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis...

..To date, it is not established whether those favourable time trends developed homogeneously for sex and age groups and how they were affected by the number of undetermined deaths...

..The goal of the present study was to assess possible combined effects of these factors on the prediction of a future fatal and non-fatal coronary event...

..To examine the contribution of depressed mood in obese subjects on the prediction of a future coronary heart disease event (CHD)...

..The inclusion of psychosocial factors, as demonstrated for depression, is likely to improve prediction of future adverse cardiovascular and total mortality. These factors may also play a crucial role in genotype-phenotype interaction...

..Against expectation, the somatization risk for men also mounted 3-fold under the identical risk constellation...

..Depressed and exhausted mood warrants epidemiological scrutiny as a cardiovascular risk factor. We evaluated the reliability and validity of a symptom-driven diagnostic scale...

..Smokers actively considering to quit smoking were compared with hard-core smokers completely unwilling to change smoking habits with respect to psychosocial variables...

..Sex-, age- and educational status-specific activities and recommendations are considered to be essential for targeting different person groups in a more focused way...

..01). No associations were found in men and in overweight women. Our results suggest that leptin regulation in depressed mood and sleep disturbances very much depend on sex and weight...

..Moreover, we aimed to analyse whether stress response is altered in the presence of depressed symptomatology. We chose "living alone" to be our paradigm of chronic stress...

..We investigate whether chronic stress also induces an exaggerated inflammatory response in individuals with increased depression features. As model for chronic stress, social isolation was chosen...

..Nonadherence and adverse side effects of medications also contribute to the lethal properties of depression in CVD...

..It is less clear whether differences in symptom reporting provide an impact on health care utilization and to which degree psychosocial factors exhibit confounding influence...

..In this study we evaluate gender differences in affective adaptation and health perception in patients 6 months after stent implantation...

..The objective of the KORA-Age research consortium is to assess the determinants and consequences of multimorbidity in the elderly and to look into reasons for successful aging in the general public...

..The present study assessed the long-term prevalence and severity of emotional disability of cardiac arrest survivors and ascertained whether survivors suffer from recurrent and intrusive recollections of the cardiac arrest...

..However, the ethical dilemma of harming a dying patient has received little attention. We studied the current state of knowledge and behavior of physicians and the subjective needs of ICD patients with respect to end-of-life issues...

..Only few empirical studies address the possible interaction between facial pain and increased psychosocial stress with a thereby heightened risk for a chronic course of disease...

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..Higher odds to die on open track area, fast track lines and during night-time suggest a reduced opportunity to survive due to circumstances...

..CONCLUSION: Increased awareness for regional and local suicide clusters, initiatives to reduce the accessibility and warning infra-red beams are among recommendations for suicide prevention derived from these data...

..The findings may increase alertness of railway and security personal for particular vulnerable time windows of excess risk for railway suicides...