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MONEY WORRIES LEADING TO STRESS ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH

March 12, 2010 by SallyPreston

12/3/10

Money worries are the biggest cause of stress in modern life, according to a new survey carried out by ICM Research on behalf of the Priory Group.

Almost a third of respondents cited their finances as being the cause of the most stress in their lives. Women worried more about money with 32% admitting to being stressed due to financial concerns as opposed to 26% of men questioned.

Those aged between 25 years and 44 years are most likely to worry about money with almost half of those questioned suffering stress due to money worries.

Priory warns of dangers of work-related stress

February 3, 2010 by SallyPreston

NEWS RELEASE: ISSUED ON BEHALF OF PRIORY GROUP

PRIORY WARNS OF DANGERS OF WORK-RELATED STRESS

3/2/10

Doctors at the Priory Group, the UK’s leading independent provider of mental healthcare, are advising businesses to make a New Year resolution to tackle stress at work.

The Health and Safety Executive’s official definition of work-related stress is "The adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them at work."

Stress could be a trigger for some cancers, new research suggests

January 14, 2010 by srrpenna

The findings, published in Nature, seemed to show for the first time that the conditions for developing the disease can be affected by your emotional environment including every day work and family stress.

Professor Tian Xu, a geneticist at Yale University who led the study, said: "A lot of different conditions can trigger stress signaling - physical stress, emotional stress, infections, inflammation – all these things.

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