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eCAM Advance Access published online on October 25, 2007
eCAM, doi:10.1093/ecam/nem142
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© 2007 The Author(s).
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Scleroderma, Stress and CAM Utilization

Ka-Kit Hui, Michael Francis Johnston, Marc Brodsky, Joe Tafur and Mai Kim Ho

Center for East-West Medicine, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA

Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease influenced by interplay among genetic and environmental factors, of which one is stress. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is frequently used to treat stress and those diseases in which stress has been implicated. Results are presented from a survey of patients with scleroderma. Respondents were a convenient sample of those attending a national conference in Las Vegas in 2002. Findings implicate stress in the onset, continuation and exacerbation of scleroderma. The implication is that CAM providers may be filling an important patient need in their provision of services that identify and treat stress and its related disorders.

Keywords: CAM use – scleroderma – stress

For reprints and all correspondence: Ka-Kit Hui, MD, FACP, Professor and Director,Center for East-West Medicine,Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 2428 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 308,Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA. Tel: 310-453-7679; Fax: 310-315-1856; E-mail: khui{at}mednet.ucla.edu

Received July 8, 2004; accepted September 6, 2007


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