Stress

While current data does not support the idea that reducing the stress in your life can reduce the risk of heart disease,

 What is stress?

 A stress response is what happens as a result of your reaction to physical, chmiecal, environmental or emotional factors. It can refer to physical effort and emotional tension.

Life without stress is all but impossible. Stress is just a normal part of one’s life. But if left unmanaged, stress can lead to emotional, psychological and even physical problems including heart disease.

At this point, scientists are not ready to say that stress is an independent risk factor for heart disease. This means that stress alone is unlikely to cause heart disease but acute and chronic stress may have an effect on other risk factors and behaviors such as high blood pressure and cholesterol levels, smoking, overeating and physical inactivity.

However, chronic stress does expose yur body to unhealthy, persistently eleveated levels of stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol. And there have been studies that link stress to changes in the way blood clots which increases the risk of a heart attack.

What causes stress?

Things that make you feel stressed are called “stressors.” People respond in different ways to stressors. An event that could make one person feel depressed and stressed out may have little or no effect another person. Here are the common stressors that can affect people of all ages …

• Problems in a personal relationship 
• Work overload 
• Illness, either personal or of a family member or friend 
• Death of a friend or loved one 
• Unemployment.
• Retirement.
• Starting a new job. 
• Crowds.
• Legal problems.
• Relocation.
• Daily hassles.
• Pregnancy.
• Financial concerns.
• Perfectionism.

Just slow down

If you feel the warning signs of stress, try to slow down. If you continue to be stressed and don’t give you and your body a break, you are likely to develop heatlhhy problems such as heart disease. You can also make an existing disease worse.

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