Stress and heart disease are sometimes associated. Here is the opinion of Prof. Dr. Victor Costache related to the connection between the two, an opinion shared on one of the shows What Happens, Doctor? Live, in which the surgeon was present on the set.
Stress is that natural feeling of not being able to cope with the specific requirements and events that are happening in your life. However, stress can become a chronic condition if a person does not take steps to manage it.
There have been and are many voices in medicine who have argued that stress influences the onset or worsening of cardiovascular disease. That due to stress some heart diseases occur and others worsen. Many doctors recommended to patients with cardiovascular diseases to avoid stress, not to be stressed, not to get upset, to have a quieter life. It’s just that we can’t always manage what is generically called stress.
“If we agree on the connection between sedentarism and heart disease, between metabolic profile and heart disease, between pollution and cardiovascular disease, in terms of stress, things are relative,” said Prof. Dr. Victor Costache. But right now, medicine can’t tell if we’re more stressed now or if we were more stressed 20, 50 or a few hundred years ago, to be able to say that people are more stressed today and that affects their heart and circulatory system. Stress is already in everyday life, in the essence of human nature, it has existed for generations and generations. It is not a novelty that humanity has been facing for a short time or a surprise for medicine.
Stress has not changed lately, so as to decisively influence the circulatory system. In recent years, however, pollution, changing metabolic profile and radically changed lifestyles are the most important factors influencing heart disease, from its onset to its worsening.
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