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Hope, optimism and delusion [PDF]

, 2014
Optimism is generally accepted by psychiatrists, psychologists and other caring professionals as a feature of mental health. Interventions typically rely on cognitive-behavioural tools to encourage individuals to ‘stop negative thought cycles’ and to ...
McGuire-Snieckus, R
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Optimism and recovery after acute coronary syndrome: a clinical cohort study. [PDF]

, 2015
Optimism is associated with reduced cardiovascular mortality, but its impact on recovery after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is poorly understood. We hypothesized that greater optimism would lead to more effective physical and emotional adaptation after ...
Ronaldson, A, Molloy, GJ, Ronaldson, Amy; id_orcid, Wikman, A, Molloy, Gerard J, Wikman, Anna, Steptoe, A, Poole, L, Wikman, Anna,, Kaski, JC, Ronaldson, Amy, Steptoe, Andrew, Poole, Lydia, Kaski, Juan-Carlos   +13 more
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Why Racial Justice Matters in Radiation Oncology

Advances in Radiation Oncology, 2020
Recent events have reaffirmed that racism is a pervasive disease plaguing the United States and infiltrating the fabric of this nation. As health care professionals dedicated to understanding and alleviating disease, many radiation oncologists have ...
Christina Hunter Chapman, MD, MS, Darlene Gabeau, MD, PhD, Chelsea C. Pinnix, MD, PhD, Curtiland Deville, Jr., MD, Iris C. Gibbs, MD, Karen M. Winkfield, MD, PhD   +5 more
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A New Black Optimism?

The Thinker, 2022
For all the opportunistic and/or pathological expressions of black life today, and the celebratory glow which surrounds it, there remains an art that is irreducible to the conflicts of its time, even when it galvanises its urgencies. In this paper I note
Ashraf Jamal
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Optimism and self-esteem are related to sleep. Results from a large community-based sample [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: There is evidence that positive personality characteristics, such as optimism and self-esteem, are important for health. Less is known about possible determinants of positive personality characteristics.
Gomez, Veronica, Räikkönen, Katri, Lemola, Sakari, Allemand, Mathias   +3 more
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Ante-Anti-Blackness: Afterthoughts

Lateral, 2012
Sexton sees to ask again about the tension between what has been coined afro- pessimism and black-optimism or what black intellectuals long have discussed as life after or in the social death of slavery.
Jared Sexton
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Adolescent Psychological Assets and Cardiometabolic Health Maintenance in Adulthood: Implications for Health Equity

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2023
Background Positive cardiometabolic health (CMH) is defined as meeting recommended levels of multiple cardiometabolic risk factors in the absence of manifest disease.
Farah Qureshi, Anne‐Josee Guimond, Elaine Tsao, Scott Delaney, Julia K. Boehm, Laura D. Kubzansky   +5 more
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A nomogram to predict the absence of clinically significant prostate cancer in males with negative MRI [PDF]

International Brazilian Journal of Urology
Purpose: To create a nomogram to predict the absence of clinically significant prostate cancer (CSPCa) in males with non-suspicion multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) undergoing prostate biopsy (PBx).
Masatomo Kaneko, Atsuko Fujihara, Tsuyoshi Iwata, Lorenzo Storino Ramacciotti, Suzanne L. Palmer, Masakatsu Oishi, Manju Aron, Giovanni E. Cacciamani, Vinay Duddalwar, Go Horiguchi, Satoshi Teramukai, Osamu Ukimura, Inderbir S. Gill, Andre Luis Abreu   +13 more
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Optimism, Resilience, and Other Health-Protective Factors Among Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) suffer disproportionately from coronavirus-related illness, death, and financial loss. The aim of this retrospective, qualitative study was to better understand the experiences of BIPOC students at a Bronx ...
Kate G. Burt, Jacob M. Eubank
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C-reactive protein haplotypes and dispositional optimism in obese and nonobese elderly subjects [PDF]

, 2011
Background Chronic low-grade inflammation, characterized by elevated plasma levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), has been inversely associated with dispositional optimism.
Craen, A.J.M., Westendorp, R.G., P. Eline Slagboom, Anton J. M. de Craen, Kromhout, D., Johanna M. Geleijnse, Craen, A.J.M. de, Erik J. Giltay, Rius-Ottenheim, N., Rudi G. Westendorp, Geleijnse, J.M., Giltay, E.J., Slagboom, P.E., Mast, R.C. van der, Nathaly Rius-Ottenheim, Daan Kromhout, Frans G. Zitman, Roos C. van der Mast, Zitman, F.G., Rius Ottenheim, N.   +19 more
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