PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Autonomic Nervous System, Coronary Artery Disease, Neuroendocrinology
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Health psychology: 100 years ago, most of us would have died because of something like influenza, polio, or tb. A host of different diseases, there was a pretty good chance that that would be the thing that kills us: today, in all likelihood, it is a chronic disease that will kill us. Things that are related to our personal lifestyle. Depending on our lifestyle, we may end up with diabetes, cancer, etc. diseases that are linked to the ways that we choose to live our lives: we have some choice about how long we have to live. They have a detrimental effect on our immune system: a study showed that flu shots for first year university students were less effective than that of upper year students. Stress has an effect on a list of illnesses. In terms of two of the most prominent ones, long term stress is associated with high blood pressure, heart disease, and early death.
