Stress and Cardiovascular Disease The effects of stress and heart disease is explained in a study Chida and Steptoe (2009), in which investigators looked at populations of people in healthy known areas, and assessed in total twenty five different studies. Anger and hostility has a positive relationship with coronary heart disease and was greater in men compared to women. Their findings also showed that individuals who had cardiac arrest and were resuscitated, twenty five percent admitted to feeling
health? Cardiac related health problems are one of the leading causes of death in industrialized areas throughout the Western world.1 Psychosocial factors such as stress and anxiety are often disregarded but have a major role to play in the development of cardiac disease. These factors are mostly manageable, allowing the risk of cardiac disease to decrease. This paper aims to discuss the influence of these psychosocial risk factors on cardiac health using the findings of epidemiological studies and the
Stress is an issue affecting the daily lives of individuals, and has a number of different definitions and meanings. It can be defined as a physical reaction to aggressors that have the ability to disrupt an individual’s homeostasis (Franco, Barros, Nogueira, & Michel, 2003). It can also be described as the physiological, behavioural and psychological responses of an individual attempting to adapt to internal and external pressures (Franco et al., 2003). The concept of stress is very broad, and
Abstract Chronic diseases are long lasting disease. Chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity and arthritis are the most common and preventable health problems. These diseases generally cannot be prevented by vaccines or medication, nor do they disappear, but they can be prevented by having a healthy lifestyle since some of the major contributors are tobacco use, lack of physical activity, and bad eating habits. Cardiovascular disease is leading cause of death
Heart and stroke diseases are claimed to be caused by unhealthy behavioural habits, however research evidence has shown that the actually causes of heart and stroke diseases are contributed to low income. The usual or traditional professional explanations for the cause of heart and stroke that were stated in the articles and on the heart and stroke foundation website were said to be contributed to biomedical and lifestyle factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol levels, being inactive, eating
Cardiovascular Diseases Affect the Global Population Over the past few years cardiovascular diseases have become the number one global cause of death. These diseases were first discovered 3,500 years ago with the Egyptians, and ever since then the causes have been pretty much the same. Although there are things that can be done to either increase or decrease the chances of getting heart disease. “Heart diseases describe a range of conditions that affect the heart” (Sheen 1). It can
Explanation of coronary heart disease. Currently, cardiovascular disease is “the number one killer in the United States and the developed world” (Sapolsky, 2004, p. 41). Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common form of cardiovascular disease, which is killing more than 7 million individuals on an annual basis. Disorder, which underlines CHD, is called atherosclerosis, process that involves inflammation of the lining of blood vessels leading to progressive accumulation of macrophages, lipid
those two things can be a huge sign of one of the deadliest diseases in the world. This disease is called coronary artery disease. Most people with this disease don’t even know they have it which is interesting because it is reported as one of the most deadliest. This disease is not only important to me but it should be to everyone else because we could have it and not realize it by the subtle symptoms. Everyone should be aware of this disease because simple symptoms can lead to death. It’s important
Although gross medical advancements have allowed the human population to live longer and fuller lives without the threat of death from infectious diseases, it is apparent that we are now dealing with a different phenomenon that may be just as harmful to our health. The impact of psychological, social and environmental factors from our daily lives is having a drastic impression on the mental and physical wellbeing of our society. It has been shown in various studies that psychological and neurological
for preventable cardiovascular disease. This illness occurs when the blood that goes through the blood vessels is excessive; this puts pressure into the vessel walls. Stress is not a clear factor for the heart disease or high blood pressure but what is clear is that depression influences people’s health negatively causing a great number of severe diseases and health issues. This paper will discuss hypertension and one of the main causes for this disease, which is stress. Further more I will discuss