Although various extracellular stimuli, including DAMPs, promote tubular inflammation, the implication of intracellular distress processes on tubular inflammation remains to be determined.
This will allow us to (i) explore the psychological wellbeing of both mothers and fathers, (ii) incorporate a longitudinal design with multiple assessment time points during the hospitalisation and post-discharge periods, and (iii) investigate the implications of parental psychological distress on parent child interaction and child development.
The context of when in the life span a diagnosis of cancer occurs has major implications for patients in terms of distress, coping, and communication problems (Ganz et al 1985; Rose 1991, 1993; Filipp 1992; Rose et al 2004).
This has implications for treatment and prevention of distress: although traditional psychiatric interventions, such as antidepressants and psychological therapies, can assist the biological and psychological consequences of mental illness, they are unlikely to address underlying social factors including poverty and gender-based victimisation.
Given the prevalence of distress among oncologists and its implications for patients and their care, it could be important to make physicians undergo periodic screening or monitoring for burnout particularly because they often do not look for help.
But if the investigation reveals that the sergeant showed signs of mental illness or other forms of distress, then this tragedy clearly has significant implications for how the military identifies, monitors and treats troubled service members.
President Bush's economic advisers, in meetings at the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the White House, are grappling with the implications of the recent political and economic distress in Japan, fearing it could worsen the slowdown here and in Asia.
In the global economic crisis environment we face, the efficient use of available healthcare resources is required to maximise health benefits for people with schizophrenia and, at the same time, reduce the emotional distress and financial implications of the condition to society [18].
If HPV testing was unacceptable to the general population, or caused high levels of distress or anxiety among those tested, this would have serious implications for the possible use of HPV testing in routine cervical cancer screening.
It is possible that during primary treatment patients are overwhelmed by distress of their diagnosis and that only after completing primary treatment do they begin to worry about the implications for their children thus making this a more important and longer-term cause of distress.
