PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC FACTORS IN THE ETIOLOGY OF PREECLAMPSIA
| Autor: | Jack R. Royce, Ira D. Glick, Louis J. Salerno |
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| Rok vydání: | 1965 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Social condition Statistics as Topic Prenatal care Abortion Preeclampsia Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Pre-Eclampsia Pregnancy Pregnancy toxemias medicine Humans In patient Marriage Intensive care medicine business.industry Abortion Induced Enuresis medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Social Conditions Etiology Female business Psychophysiology |
| Zdroj: | Archives of general psychiatry. 12 |
| ISSN: | 0003-990X |
| Popis: | Introduction DESPITE the relatively great advances made in prenatal care during the past several decades, preeclampsia and the other toxemias of pregnancy remain a serious obstetrical problem. In fact, toxemia is at present one of the three leading causes of fetal and maternal mortality, together with infection and hemorrhage. 1 This study was designed to add data pertinent to the theory that preeclampsia might be a psychophysiologic illness. Our working hypothesis was that there may exist significant psychologic factors in patients who develop preeclampsia which contribute to the precipitating or sustaining of this serious complication of pregnancy. In reviewing the literature, the possibility that psychologic factors might play a role in the toxemias of pregnancy has been suggested in the past. For example, after studying toxemia in various parts of the world, Dieckmann stated in 1946 that, "our data seem to indicate that toxemia |
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