The time has come for physicians to take notice: the impact of psychosocial stressors on the heart

VM Figueredo - The American journal of medicine, 2009 - Elsevier
A rapidly growing body of evidence supports a relationship between psychosocial factors
and cardiovascular disease. In this article, a review of the epidemiologic and clinical
research investigating this relationship concludes that psychosocial stressors can be both a
cause and a consequence of cardiovascular disease events. Furthermore, recent data have
shown that stress management might reduce future cardiac events in patients with
cardiovascular disease. Unfortunately, the influence of psychosocial risk factors on …