Result: Of the total deaths autopsied during , 64 0. Non-cardiac causes significantly predominated Most of the SUND cases were due to preventable causes, including infections Sudden adult death syndrome SADS accounted for Conclusion: SUND in young adults is preventable.
A meticulous post-mortem examination with special attention to the conduction system of heart and detailed toxicological analysis can pinpoint the cause of death in SADS. Keywords: Death, natural, sudden adult death syndrome, sudden, young adults. Ryan,Laura Hemmy Journal of Personality. Year : Volume : 54 Issue : 1 Page : Sudden, unexpected and natural death in young adults of age between 18 and 35 years: A clinicopathological study.
Indian J Pathol Microbiol ; Without access to traditional rituals, shamans, and geographies, the Hmong were unable to provide themselves psychic protection from the spirits of their sleep. Drawing on all this evidence, Adler makes the provocative claim that the Laotian immigrants of the s were in some sense killed by their powerful cultural belief in night spirits. It was not a simple process. Her argument amounts to a stirring and chilling case for the power of the nocebo, the flipside to the placebo effect.
While placebo studies have grown in importance , the nocebo effect has not been studied well in scientific literature, in part because of the ethical issues involved in deliberately doing something that might harm people.
Limited studies suggest that it is real and it is powerful. For example, doctors have found that patients made to feel anxious need larger amounts of opiates after surgery than other people.
They've found that pretending to expose people who say they are sensitive to electromagnetic radiation to cell phone signals can give them debilitating headaches. Even patients' level of side effects from arthritis medication seem determined by those patients' beliefs about those medicines. Logically speaking, if the evidence shows the upside of belief, why wouldn't we believe in the downside, too?
And why wouldn't we believe that the intensity of the downside would vary with the intensity of the belief, even if those beliefs were about something unscientific, like spirits or astrology?
If you're still unsure that the nocebo effect could actually lead to premature death, Adler cites one stunning example of the effect from China. A team of researchers found that Chinese Americans die younger than expected "if they have a combination of disease and birth year which Chinese astrology and medicine considers ill-fated.
Similar effects were not found in the white populations around them. And how much sooner you died depended on the people's "strength of commitment to traditional Chinese culture.
Think about that for a minute. If you were born under a bad sign, you died five years younger from the same diseases as people born under good signs. But only if you believed in Chinese astrology. Results like these seem improbable, or anti-reason, or something. But Adler's book is an attack on the "Oh, come on! She uses her understanding of both science and traditional belief structures to argue for what she calls "local biology.
The truth is that we don't understand the relationship between belief and biology quite as well as we'd like to think. That's one reason sleep paralysis is so useful as a probe for the boundary of mind and body. The night-mare is "a link between our biological and cultural selves. Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest. The Atlantic Crossword. Currently, there is no effective treatment for SUNDS, and no clear reason why it tends to affect Southeast Asians more frequently than other groups.
And the syndrome is very difficult to detect, even with a dedicated electrocardiograph reading, Vatta said. Doctors in the U. Um suggests the years of stress that the Hmong endured could be a factor in the disease. The threat of this mysterious death sentence given to Hmong refugees may be even more frightening than the fictional serial murderer that it inspired.
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