[HTML][HTML] Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span

D Furman, J Campisi, E Verdin, P Carrera-Bastos… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Although intermittent increases in inflammation are critical for survival during physical injury
and infection, recent research has revealed that certain social, environmental and lifestyle …

Social Safety Theory: Conceptual foundation, underlying mechanisms, and future directions

GM Slavich, LG Roos, S Mengelkoch… - Health psychology …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Classic theories of stress and health are largely based on assumptions regarding how
different psychosocial stressors influence biological processes that, in turn, affect human …

Psychosocial interventions and immune system function: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

GS Shields, CM Spahr, GM Slavich - JAMA psychiatry, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Recent estimates suggest that more than 50% of all deaths worldwide are
currently attributable to inflammation-related diseases. Psychosocial interventions may …

Association between systemic immune-inflammation index and diabetic depression

J Wang, D Zhou, Z Dai, X Li - Clinical interventions in aging, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background Depression is highly prevalent in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Diabetic
depression has been shown to be associated with low-grade systemic inflammation. In …

Social safety theory: a biologically based evolutionary perspective on life stress, health, and behavior

GM Slavich - Annual review of clinical psychology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Social Safety Theory hypothesizes that develo** and maintaining friendly social bonds is
a fundamental organizing principle of human behavior and that threats to social safety are a …

Sex differences and psychological stress: responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in China

S Yan, R Xu, TD Stratton, V Kavcic, D Luo, F Hou, F Bi… - BMC public health, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background About 83,000 COVID-19 patients were confirmed in China up to May
2020. Amid the well-documented threats to physical health, the effects of this public health …

Antidepressant drugs effects on blood pressure

A Calvi, I Fischetti, I Verzicco… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Individuals suffering from depressive disorders display a greater incidence of hypertension
compared with the general population, despite reports of the association between …

Heart–brain interactions in cardiac and brain diseases: why sex matters

A Rossi, N Mikail, S Bengs, A Haider… - European heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cardiovascular disease and brain disorders, such as depression and cognitive dysfunction,
are highly prevalent conditions and are among the leading causes limiting patient's quality …

Potential influence of menstrual status and sex hormones on female severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection: a cross-sectional multicenter study in …

T Ding, J Zhang, T Wang, P Cui, Z Chen… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Recent studies have indicated that females with coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) have a lower morbidity, severe case rate, and mortality and better outcome than …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in the blood–brain barrier: implications for mental health

L Dion-Albert, LB Binder, B Daigle, A Hong-Minh… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Prevalence of mental disorders, including major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar
disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ) are increasing at alarming rates in our societies …