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Psychological factors in fatal childhood asthma
Gregory K Fritz1, Steven Rubinstein1, Norman J Lewiston1
1Department of Psychiatry.
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|April 1, 1987
Abstract:
A review of three recent cases of death due to childhood asthma revealed consistent themes of depression, emotional precipitation of attacks, unsupportive families, and a tendency to deny asthma symptoms. Possible psychosomatic mechanisms are identified as potentially important for the interaction of emotions and asthma.