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The evidence that environmental physical stressors can cause disease — in the sence that exposure, avoidance or manipulation of them increases, decreases, or removes the risk of becoming ill, or reverses ill health when it occurs — is established for a large number of stressors and diseases.
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Levi, L. (1990). Approaches to Stress in Man — Present Knowledge and Future Research. In: Puglisi-Allegra, S., Oliverio, A. (eds) Psychobiology of Stress. NATO ASI Series, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1990-7_17
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