Objective: To investigate whether physical fitness is decreased in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) in comparison to matched healthy controls because low physical fitness has been shown to be associated with metabolic syndrome or autonomic dysfunction. Cardiovascular morbidity and

Objective: To assess blood pressure (BP) reactivity as recently separated adults completed a laboratory task asking to mentally reflect on their relationship experiences. Marital separations and the experience of divorce are associated with increased risk for early mortality and poor

Objective: To investigate whether black and white adults benefit similarly from perceived social support in relation to blood pressure (BP) dipping during sleep.Methods: The Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL, 12-item version), which measures the perceived availability of several types of

Objective: To examine whether socioeconomic status (SES) (education, occupation, income), is associated both cross sectionally and prospectively with circulating concentrations of a) two correlates of oxidative damage, F2-isoprostanes (F2-IsoPs) and gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT); and b) antioxidant nutrients (ascorbic acid and carotenoids).

Objective: To confirm the association of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) with high allostatic load (AL) level, examine the association of subsyndromal CFS with AL level, and investigate the effect of depression on these relationships and the association of AL with

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In this paper, we give a complete self-contained proof that the rigiditymatrix of a symmetric bar and joint framework (as well as its transpose) can betransformed into a block-diagonalized form using techniques from grouprepresentation theory. This theorem is basic to