Stress-Related Disorders and Autoimmune Disease

To the Editor Dr Song and colleagues reported that stress-related disorders were associated with increased risk of subsequent autoimmune disease. Stress is an adverse event that is associated with various mental disorders and physical diseases, possibly through hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation, epigenetic modification, or the inflammatory response. The study presented several problems that require further discussion.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research