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- Song, Huan, et al.
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The familial co-aggregation of stress-related disorders and autoimmune diseases
- 2019
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Ingår i: Behavior Genetics. - : Springer. - 0001-8244 .- 1573-3297. ; 49:6, s. 539-540
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: Evidence has emerged indicating a role of stress-related disorders in the development of autoimmune diseases. However, it remains unknown whether genetic components contribute to the observed association. We therefore investigated the co-aggregation of stress-related disorders and autoimmune diseases in individuals and their family members in the Swedish population.Methods: We identified 4,123,631 individuals born in Sweden between 1953 and 1993. Based on information from the Multi-Generation Register, we conducted cohorts of relatives of varying relatedness. Logistic regression was used to estimate the association between clinical ascertained stress-related disorders (i.e., acute stress reaction, posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD], adjustment disorder, and other severe stress reactions) and autoimmune diseases (36 different types) in individuals and in families, presenting relative risks as odds ratios (ORs).Results: Individuals with stress-related disorder were at high er risk of having autoimmune diseases compared with individuals who did nothave stress-related disorder (OR = 1.66, 95% confidence intervals (CI) 1.63–1.69). Within families, the association seemed strongest between monozygotic twins (OR = 1.47, 95% CI 1.07–2.03), and then decreased with descending dyads of familial/genetic relatedness ̄OR was 1.28 (95% CI 0.97–1.67), 1.16 (95% CI 1.14–1.18), 1.05 (95% CI 1.02–1.09), 1.06 (95% CI 1.03–1.10), 1.05 (95% CI 1.04–1.06), and 1.00 (95% CI 0.98–1.04) for dizygotic twins, full siblings, maternal half siblings, paternal half siblings, full cousins, and half cousins, respectively. Further analyses on PTSD and autoimmune diseases obtained similar estimates.Conclusion: The pattern of the association across twin zygosity and varying familial relatedness supports the hypothesis of a genetic overlap between stress-related disorders and autoimmune diseases which warrants further exploration.
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- Li, Yuchen, et al.
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Public awareness, emotional reactions and human mobility in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in China : a population-based ecological study
- 2022
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Ingår i: Psychological Medicine. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0033-2917 .- 1469-8978. ; 52:9, s. 1793-1800
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: The outbreak of COVID-19 generated severe emotional reactions, and restricted mobility was a crucial measure to reduce the spread of the virus. This study describes the changes in public emotional reactions and mobility patterns in the Chinese population during the COVID-19 outbreak.Methods: We collected data on public emotional reactions in response to the outbreak through Weibo, the Chinese Twitter, between January 1st and March 31st, 2020. Using anonymized location-tracking information, we analyzed the daily mobility patterns of approximately 90% of Sichuan residents.Results: There were three distinct phases of the emotional and behavioral reactions to the COVID-19 outbreak. The alarm phase (January 19th –26th) was a restriction-free period, characterized by few new daily cases, but enormous public negative emotions (the number of negative comments per Weibo post increased by 246.9 per day, 95%CI: 122.5–371.3), and a substantial increase in self-limiting mobility (from 45.6% to 54.5%, changing by 1.5% per day, 95%CI: 0.7%–2.3%). The epidemic phase (January 27th –February 15th) exhibited rapidly increasing numbers of new daily cases, decreasing expression of negative emotions (a decrease of 27.3 negative comments per post per day, 95%CI: −40.4–−14.2), and a stabilized level of self-limiting mobility. The relief phase (February 16th –March 31st) had a steady decline in new daily cases and decreasing levels of negative emotion and self-limiting mobility.Conclusions: During the COVID-19 outbreak in China, the public’s emotional reaction was strongest before the actual peak of the outbreak and declined thereafter. The change in human mobility patterns occurred before the implementation of restriction orders, suggesting a possible link between emotion and behavior.
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