How Stress Influences Your Heart Attack And Stroke Risk

How Stress Influences Your Heart Attack And Stroke Risk

Stress is one of the most dangerous conditions for our health but also the one we have the power to control.

• Stress increases your risk of heart attack and stroke by causing overactivity in your amygdala — your brain’s fear center, which is activated in response to both real and perceived threats
• People who are highly stressed have higher activity in the amygdala. This, in turn, triggers arterial inflammation, which is a risk factor for heart disease, including heart attacks
• High stress also raises your level of disease-promoting white blood cells and releases norepinephrine, which can cause dispersal of bacterial biofilms from your arterial walls, thereby triggering a heart attack

Blood Pressure Reading

Blood pressure is a good indicator of how healthy a person is.  It is so important to check this as there are so many conditions that can result from high blood pressure and low blood pressure is not good either.  So many people are unaware of how their lifestyle affects their blood pressure, for instance alcohol consumption, high intake of salt, fast food.

The Scientists are constantly working on finding causes to our illnesses to help us maintain a healthy body.  Our job is to respect this body which is an amazing machine.


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Prevent Stroke?

 We cannot learn enough about the causes of stroke.  Strokes are very common these days and are not a sign of ageing, young people suffer strokes too.

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