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Link Between Stress and Coronary Heart Disease

by Colleen Fleiss on Apr 11 2021 6:46 PM

Link Between Stress and Coronary Heart Disease
In women psychological stress is associated with coronary heart disease, suggested a new study. Psychosocial stress typically results from difficulty coping with challenging environments.
"The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted //ongoing stresses for women in balancing paid work and social stressors," said researchers Yvonne Michael, Associate Professor at Drexel University in the US.

"My hope is that these findings are a call for better methods of monitoring stress in the workplace and remind us of the dual-burden working women face as a result of their unpaid work as caregivers at home," Michael added.

The study also found that high-stress life events, such as a spouse's death, divorce/separation or physical or verbal abuse, as well as social strain, were each independently linked with a 12 per cent and 9 per cent higher risk of coronary heart disease, respectively.

For the study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the team used data from a nationally representative sample of 80,825 postmenopausal women.

In the current follow-up study, the researchers evaluated the effect of psychosocial stress from job strain, stressful life events and social strain (through a survey), and associations among these forms of stress, on coronary heart disease.

Nearly 5 per cent of the women developed coronary heart disease during the 14-year, seven-month study.

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Coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the US, occurs with the heart's arteries become narrow and cannot bring sufficient oxygenated blood to the heart.

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