Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Diseases

Overview

Journal Postgrad Med J

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2005 Jul 7

PMID 15998817

Citations 19

Authors

S Vale

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Abstract

Fifty five years after the first finding relating mood disturbances and cardiovascular diseases, there is still debate on the formation of a cogent conception embracing all the fragments of insight within the various aspects relating psychosocial stress to cardiovascular diseases. The clinical comorbidity is empirically evident, but there are ambiguous research results limiting the value of the proposed pathophysiological mechanisms. Psychosocial stress represents here any event that relates psychological phenomena to the social environment and to the associated pathophysiological changes. Stress denotes the external or environmental factors to which people are exposed, as well as the behavioural or biological reaction to it (response that some authors call "distress"). Cardiovascular diseases will be considered here only when being the consequence of chronic inflammatory disease of arteries (atherosclerosis). The question is: are there pathophysiological reliable mechanisms relating psychosocial stress to the development of cardiovascular diseases?

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