Arthritis Res Ther. 2010;12(3):123. doi: 10.1186/ar3024. Epub 2010 Jun 7.
Rheumatology patients frequently note the occurrence of stressful or traumatic life events prior to the onset of their illness and/or a relationship between stress and disease flares. For our patients, identifying causal events could represent an effort to give meaning to a chronic and often disabling disease, while noting a link between stress and flares may proffer a sense of control. Whatever purpose the report of stress as an etiological or maintaining factor may serve, the science exploring a causal relationship between stress and autoimmune disease onset and course is expanding. Moreover, stress can also induce symptoms such as pain via nonimmunological mechanisms.
风湿病患者经常注意到在疾病发作之前发生的紧张或创伤性生活事件，和/或压力与疾病发作之间的关系。对于我们的患者来说，确定因果事件可能代表着对一种慢性且常常使人丧失能力的疾病赋予意义的努力，同时注意到压力与发作之间的联系可能提供一种控制感。无论报告压力作为病因或维持因素的目的是什么，探索压力与自身免疫性疾病发病和病程之间因果关系的科学正在不断发展。此外，压力也可以通过非免疫机制引起疼痛等症状。
