Multiple Roles and Stress Burden in Women: A Conceptual Model of Heart Disease Risk
| Autor: | Alexandra L. Terrill, Elizabeth Soliday, John P. Garofalo, Rebecca M. Craft |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Cultural Studies
Gerontology Rehabilitation Heart disease business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Developing country Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Disease Affect (psychology) medicine.disease Clinical Psychology medicine Myocardial infarction business Psychosocial Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Cause of death |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research. 17:4-22 |
| ISSN: | 1071-2089 |
| Popis: | Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of mortality in adult women, and recent trends indicate that risk for women, particularly working mothers, has worsened during the last decade. The absence of a biological explanation for this gender discrepancy has led some to look to psychosocial risk factors. This literature review examines the effect of multiple roles on women’s cardiovascular health. Further, a conceptual model of heart disease risk is proposed, which introduces background stress, a chronic stress burden, as a potential pathway between multiple roles and heart disease. Trends in the literature largely support the proposed conceptual model. Multiple roles that often place conflicting demands on women may affect health outcomes through an increase in total background stress. jabr_ 4..22 Coronary heart disease (CHD), the most prevalent form of cardiovascular disease, is the leading cause of death and disability among women in developed and developing countries (American Heart Association, 2009). Traditionally considered a “man’s disease,” in the last three decades, more U.S. women than men have died of heart disease annually. Although women develop CHD later than men, once the disease manifests, women have no survival advantage over men. Moreover, women have higher mortality and morbidity rates than men following myocardial infarction (MI), a difference particularly evident in younger ( |
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