scleroderma, stress and cam utilization硬皮病、压力和凸轮的利用率.pdfVIP

Advance Access Publication 25 October 2007 eCAM 2009;6(4)503–506 doi:10.1093/ecam/nem142 Original Article Scleroderma, Stress and CAM Utilization Ka-Kit Hui, Michael Francis Johnston, Marc Brodsky, Joe Tafur and Mai Kim Ho Center for East-West Medicine, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease influenced by interplay among genetic and environ- mental factors, of which one is stress. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is frequently used to treat stress and those diseases in which stress has been implicated. Results are presented from a survey of patients with scleroderma. Respondents were a convenient sample of those attending a national conference in Las Vegas in 2002. Findings implicate stress in the onset, continuation and exacerbation of scleroderma. The implication is that CAM providers may be filling an important patient need in their provision of services that identify and treat stress and its related disorders. Keywords: CAM use – scleroderma – stress Introduction patients ascribed the cause of their condition to stress (6). Despite increasing understanding of pathogenetic mecha- Scleroderma