To understand all the risk factors contributing to actually developing into a cardiovascular event for any one of us it is necessary that we understand ourselves as a person, individual,personality,our traits,thought processes. Cardio symptoms come suddenly but have a long history and take time to develop. All these factors are contributors and in addition to all clinical ones which medical science keeps telling us and which are tangible and measurable, for example bad cholesterol can be measured. However stress does not have a measurement scale but might just be as deadly.
In the latest available research showing just how bad stress is for anyone, a new European study indicates that
having a stress-prone personality could seriously increase the risk for heart
disease.
The new research, conducted on a large Danish population, found that people who are
"mentally vulnerable" -- meaning they are more susceptible to stress
-- are at a significantly higher risk for both fatal and non-fatal heart
events. The study's findings were presented on April 18 in Rome at the
EuroPRevent 2013 congress.
Researchers measured "mental vulnerability" on a
12-point scale, looking at mental and physical symptoms that measured an
individual's level of stress, and determined whether they had a personality
that was more prone to getting stressed-out. A statistical analysis of nearly 11,000 individuals showed
that mental vulnerability was correlated with cardiovascular events, both fatal
and non-fatal, independently of normal risk factors like smoking, cholesterol
and age.
The researchers followed the Danish group which was as large as 10,943 individuals initially free of heart disease, for nearly 16 years. Just
over 3,000 fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events were recorded during the
follow-up analysis, and the data showed that the risk of cardiovascular events
in the mentally vulnerable was 36 percent higher than in the non-vulnerable,
independently of other risk factors.
“So mental vulnerability might describe a ‘new dimension’ when
compared to the five classical and all known risk factors, but to take this forward we need
to identify sub-groups of the population where mental vulnerability does
improve risk prediction beyond the classic risk factors,” one of the study authors, Dr.
Anders Borglykke, of the Research Centre for Prevention and Health
at Glostrup University
Hospital, said in a statement..
Although previous studies have linked personality traits with
cardiovascular disease and mortality, their role in predicting risk although wasn't very clear.
For instance, a 2006 Duke University study found that regular anxiety,
depression and hostility increase a person's risk of developing coronary heart
disease, and that the combination of these negative emotions could significantly
increase that risk.
Research has also found that those with Type A personalities -- characterized by being competitive,
impatient, ambitious and uptight -- are at a higher risk for heart disease,
although one study found this to be untrue.
But personality type isn't the only stress-related risk factor
for cardiovascular events. A 2012 review of studies also showed that excessive work stress
could increase the risk of heart attack: Those with demanding jobs were found
to have a 23 percent higher risk of suffering from heart attack.
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