Clinical consequences of psychoemotional stress in adolescence
The problem of stress-induced health disorders has become increasingly important during the military conflict in Ukraine. Adolescence is characterized by significant challenges for the body due to intense anatomical, physiological, neuroendocrine, and psychological changes. Increased sensitivity to...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Zaslavsky O.Yu.
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Zdorovʹe Rebenka |
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| Online Access: | https://childshealth.zaslavsky.com.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/1778 |
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| Summary: | The problem of stress-induced health disorders has become increasingly important during the military conflict in Ukraine. Adolescence is characterized by significant challenges for the body due to intense anatomical, physiological, neuroendocrine, and psychological changes. Increased sensitivity to the effects of stressors, in particular due to the maturation of stress-sensitive parts of the brain and related changes in hormonal responsiveness, is typical of adolescents. Stress caused by war-related factors is becoming chronic in Ukrainian children and adolescents. It can lead to disruption of body functions and adaptive capacities, formation or exacerbation of organic pathology. The article analyzes the data of modern scientific literature on clinical manifestations of acute and chronic stress in adolescents. Particular attention is paid to somatic changes in children and adolescents that are induced by chronic stress or observed against its background. Disorders of physical development, skin and musculoskeletal system functioning, peculiarities of the course of certain diseases of the bronchopulmonary system are described. Attention is focused on the formation of cardiovascular pathology, including life-threatening conditions, on disorders of various parts of the gastrointestinal tract and the gut microbiome, changes in kidney and urinary system function. The article provides up-to-date information on the manifestations of endocrine diseases, disorders of autonomic regulation and immune homeostasis under the influence of psychoemotional stress. The results of our own research on the frequency and nature of clinical manifestations in adolescents who lived in the war zone or became internally displaced people, as well as the presence of an imbalance of stress-supplying systems in adolescents during the war are presented. The features of the perception of pain and signs of disease in the conditions of chronic stress are determined, in particular, a decrease in the fixation of attention on personal somatic sensations in children who were constantly in the combat zone and witnessed shelling. Psychoemotional stress experienced in adolescence can have long-term significant consequences in the form of persistent changes in the functioning of various organs and systems of the growing organism, as well as diseases in later life. |
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| ISSN: | 2224-0551 2307-1168 |