Report from a large and comprehensive single-center Women's Health Cardiology Clinic.

Objective: This article describes the women population and work at a unique Women's Health Cardiology Clinic in order to raise cardiovascular disease awareness with an emphasis on women-specific risk factors, and thus to improve women's clinical outcomes. This expectantly will aid in opening similar centers allowing more women to get superior care.

Methods: Electronic medical records of women referred to the Women's Health Cardiology Clinic were analyzed.

Comparisons Between Illness and Injury Outcomes: Potential Suppression Effects by Emotional Representations.

Background: Based on recent findings that people perceive illness and injury as separate categories, we compared ill and injured participants with similar health conditions on illness perceptions and reported outcomes, e.g., functioning, distress, well-being.

Health-related quality of life after injury: examining the roles of perceived daily-life stress and injury perceptions.

Purpose: The present study aimed to examine the effects of injury perceptions and perceived daily stress on health-related quality of life (HRQL) of individuals affected by a physical injury.

Methods: Two hundred and forty injured individuals completed questionnaires assessing HRQL (Medical Outcome Health Survey short-form 36), perceived daily-life stress (Perceived Stress Scale), and injury perceptions (Brief-InjPQ).

Results: The direct effects of stress on HRQL scores were not moderated by gender.

Physical injury, stress, and health: Protective role of dispositional optimism.

Physical injuries are common occurrences that can have substantial implications for personal, emotional, and social functioning. A recent study reported higher prevalence of common illnesses and reduced health-related quality of life (HRQL) in injury victims. Based on these findings, the present study examined the role of the antibody immunoglobulin A (IgA) and the stress hormone cortisol in the association between injury and health.

The role of centrality to self-concept in moderating the associations between injury perceptions and outcomes.

Objectives: To test the centrality of injury to self-concept as a moderator of the associations between injury perceptions and outcomes.

Methods: Two concurrent studies on samples of injured individuals.

Measures: The centrality of injury to one's self concept was measured by the degree of self-injury separation (PRISM); injury perceptions were measured by the injury perception questionnaire; and outcomes by standard scales of self-assessed health, physical, emotional and social functioning, vitality, depression, anxiety and somatisation.