Are multiple roles a risk factor for myocardial infarction in women?

This study examined whether multiple social roles are associated with an increased risk for a first myocardial infarction in a sample of Dutch women and whether there is evidence in favour of either the scarcity or the enhancement hypothesis about multiple roles. Subjects were 79 patients with a first myocardial infarction (MI), and they were compared with 90 hospital controls. Logistic regression analyses showed that multiple social roles do not constitute a risk factor for a first myocardial infarction.

Psychiatric consultation for somatizing patients in the family practice setting: a feasibility study.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to assess the feasibility of a psychiatric consultation intervention for somatizing patients in the family practice setting in terms of 1) patient compliance, 2) patient satisfaction, and 3) compliance and satisfaction of general practitioners (GPs).

Method: In a period of nine months, forty-six patients were selected for psychiatric consultation in six solo family practices in a semi-urban area in the Netherlands. The consultation included an interview with the consulting psychiatrist, the patient, and the GP.

Psychosocial risk factors for cardiovascular disease in women: the role of social support.

Lack of social support is becoming increasingly important as a psychosocial risk factor in the study of coronary heart disease (CHD). There may also be an association between vital exhaustion and lack of social support. Because most research has focused on men, we decided to explore the associations between structural and functional social support and first myocardial infarction (MI) in women.

Chronic dietary choline enrichment affects DRL responding of old, but not of adult CPBB rats.

Using adult (11-month-old) and aged (22-month-old) inbred female CPBB rats, we tested the hypothesis that chronic dietary choline supplementation affects timing behavior. The rats had received choline chloride in their tap water for about 9 months before they acquired responding on a differential reinforcement of low-rate schedule with a critical delay of 8 s (DRL-8"). One retention session and two extinction sessions were given 4 weeks after the end of acquisition.