Programme - also known as SHEEP.This aim of the programme is to monitor the number of first heart attacks in healthy people who were aged between 45 and 70 at the start of the study in the early 1990s.The research fell into three parts, using surveys and interviews with the participants....
She added that taking into account patients' psychological stress may help clinicians better evaluate the risk of recurrent heart attacks or death seen in some patients surviving a heart attack. These results also underscore the need for strategies to identify the best stress management interventions f...
Fear of recurrence has been studied more extensively in people with cancer, Zvonar said, but less so in the cardiology realm. She was inspired to look into the topic after watching her father and the fathers of four lifelong friends deal with heart attacks and the worries that followed. The ...
What are the next steps for research on work stress and coronary heart disease? Scand J Work Environ Health. 2008;Suppl 6:S33–40.Kivimaki M, Vahtera J, Elovainio M, Keltikangas-Jarvinen L, Virtanen M, Hintsanen M, et al. What are the next steps for research on work stress and ...
This paper aimed at identifying gaps in the evidence for work stress as a risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) and at providing ideas for more rigorous tests of the association. Evidence in this field is mixed. The risk of type I and II errors would be reduced in future studies ...
change in concentration of several hormones and a change in heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV). The brain innervates the heart by means of stimuli via the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), which is divided into sympathetic and parasympathetic branches. The sympathetic activity leads...
Cardiovascular disease, includingheart disease, high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms, heart attacks, and strokes Obesity and othereating disorders Menstrual problems Sexual dysfunction, such as impotence andpremature ejaculationin men and loss of sexual desire in men and women ...
Panic disorder is characterized by sudden, sometimes spontaneousattacksof terrifying anxiety accompanied bysymptomssuch as the experience of terror,heartpalpitations, andsweating. Fear of the attacks themselves generates a pattern of avoidance that can severely constrict the person’s life. During attacks,...
Studying more than 33,000 patients with heart attack over a period of 15 years, the UK and Canadian researchers found 0.54% were due to SCAD. With over 188,000 heart attacks each year in the UK, this means approximately 1,000 may be due to SCAD. ...
Scientists have long known thatstress can influence your heart health, but exactly how this relationship takes place has been something of a mystery – until now. Activity in the amygdala, a region of the brain associated with fear and stress, can predict your risk for heart disease and stroke...