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An analysis of the issue of stress and its consequences will lead to the specific issue of stress for students, especially incoming students who are experiencing a major change in lifestyle and increasing demands on their time and energy.
Stress can be shown to be helpful and even necessary in the short term, but over time it turns destructive. Recent research shows how chronic stress breaks down the body and makes way for disease. Stress has been linked to heart disease, as noted, and also to immune deficiency and memory loss (Adler, Kalb, and Rogers 56). Stress, along with other psychosocial factors such as lack of social support, depression and socioeconomic status, has been linked with the increased incidence of CHD, and all of these factors have been associated either with clinical outcomes in CHD patients. Stress is referred to as one of several psychosocial factors associated with upper-extremity disorders (Deitchman 1691-1692). Researchers today attribute a wide range of health effects to stress, including increas
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