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Stress can cause heart attacks
Stress is as likely to cause a heart attack as being overweight, smoking or having high cholesterol,
according to a new US study. Anxiety, hostility and depression take a significant toll on the heart, scientists
at Harvard Medical School found.
They said the release of stress hormones causes inflammation that promotes heart disease at every stage.
According to Professor Edward Suarez of Duke University : "Hostile and depressed people respond to the
world in a chemically different way. Fifty per cent of people who have heart attacks do not have high
cholesterol."
Experts reviewed anecdotal evidence from health care workers and found that early childhood trauma can
provoke heart-related health problems later in life.
Dr Ilan Wittstein at Johns Hopkins University found that patients' hearts suddenly weakened after
experiencing major shocks such as a sudden death or a car accident.
The study found that depression at least doubles the risk of a heart attack and warned that doctors need to
pay more attention to their patients' mental health.
By contrast, scientists also found that friendship, optimism and laughter appear to protect the heart and
have healing effects.
Loving Support Helps Beat Stress-linked Hypertension
A supportive spouse can help soothe the negative effects of job stress on blood pressure, new research
shows.
According to one study on 216 men and women found that a combination of job stress and lack of spousal
support was associated with an increase in systolic blood pressure.
However, study volunteers who experienced job stress but had a supportive spouse showed a decrease in
their hypertension of 2.5 mm Hg in systolic blood pressure.
Spousal support means talking things over on a daily basis, and it's a key component of what the
researchers called "marital cohesion," said researcher Dr. Sheldon Tobe, assistant professor of medicine,
University of Toronto
Stress is as likely to cause a heart attack as being overweight, smoking or having high cholesterol,
according to a new US study. Anxiety, hostility and depression take a significant toll on the heart, scientists
at Harvard Medical School found.
They said the release of stress hormones causes inflammation that promotes heart disease at every stage.
According to Professor Edward Suarez of Duke University : "Hostile and depressed people respond to the
world in a chemically different way. Fifty per cent of people who have heart attacks do not have high
cholesterol."
Experts reviewed anecdotal evidence from health care workers and found that early childhood trauma can
provoke heart-related health problems later in life.
Dr Ilan Wittstein at Johns Hopkins University found that patients' hearts suddenly weakened after
experiencing major shocks such as a sudden death or a car accident.
The study found that depression at least doubles the risk of a heart attack and warned that doctors need to
pay more attention to their patients' mental health.
By contrast, scientists also found that friendship, optimism and laughter appear to protect the heart and
have healing effects.
Loving Support Helps Beat Stress-linked Hypertension
A supportive spouse can help soothe the negative effects of job stress on blood pressure, new research
shows.
According to one study on 216 men and women found that a combination of job stress and lack of spousal
support was associated with an increase in systolic blood pressure.
However, study volunteers who experienced job stress but had a supportive spouse showed a decrease in
their hypertension of 2.5 mm Hg in systolic blood pressure.
Spousal support means talking things over on a daily basis, and it's a key component of what the
researchers called "marital cohesion," said researcher Dr. Sheldon Tobe, assistant professor of medicine,
University of Toronto