Psychological Stress and Susceptibility to the Common Cold
Open Access
- 29 August 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 325 (9) , 606-612
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199108293250903
Abstract
It is not known whether psychological stress suppresses host resistance to infection. To investigate this issue, we prospectively studied the relation between psychological stress and the frequency of documented clinical colds among subjects intentionally exposed to respiratory viruses.Keywords
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