Beware … constant stress can predispose you to heart attacks

Scientific reports indicated that long-term stress is a risk factor for heart attacks, as levels of the stress hormone cortisol differ between people who have had a heart attack and those who have not been affected, indicating that cortisol may be a new risk sign for heart attacks, which makes us keen on Correct handling of stress.

The study also showed that stress is a normal part of life today, but the effects of long-term stress on our bodies are many, which may be in the form of sudden emotional or physical stress that leads to heart attacks.

The study relied on measuring cortisol levels in hair samples from 174 men and women in professional life who were admitted due to myocardial infarction to cardiology clinics in southeastern Sweden, which confirmed that patients who had suffered a heart attack had high levels of cortisol and had high blood pressure. Blood, elevated blood lipid levels, also found to have a history of heart attacks, and genetic heart attacks, andDiabetes.

The study said that a heart attack is damage to the heart muscle due to a lack of oxygen supply to a part of the heart, which often forms a blood clot that blocks the flow of blood through the coronary arteries that supply the heart with oxygen-rich blood, and the underlying cause of most heart attacks is hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis). This could start to appear decades before the first symptoms appear.

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