title: Psychological aspects of endocrine disease.
abstract: This review illustrates how an innovative psychoneuroendocrine approach to endocrine patients may improve their management. Important psychological issues pertain to all the different phases of an endocrine disorder. Before disease onset, stressful life events may play a pathogenetic role and, together with chronic stress, may contribute to a cumulative burden also called allostatic load; psychological and psychiatric symptoms are common both in the prodromal and in the active phase of illness; after cure or remission, there could be residual symptoms and impaired quality of life that deserve attention. All these aspects should be taken into consideration and introduced in current endocrine care and practice.
authors: N Sonino, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Battisti 241, 35121 Padova, Italy. Email nicoletta.sonino@unipd.it.
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Sonino
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Guidi
authors: G A
authors: GA
authors: Fava
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000209:etiology; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D004700:Endocrine System Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009013:Morale; D011788:Quality of Life; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology
keywords: anxiety; depression; endocrine disease; hormones; quality of life; stress