SAN FRANCISCO: Stress does bad things to the heart. Can
new studies have found higher rates of heart problems in veterans who
suffer from PTSD, New Orleans residents after six years of Hurricane
Katrina and the Greeks through struggling turmoil.Disasters the
country's financial and tension for long periods flying 'fight or
flight' hormones that affect blood sugar, blood pressure, and other things that make heart trouble ways more likely, doctors say. It
also raises the anger and the deficit and stimulate the heart, said Dr.
Nieca Goldberg damage, a cardiologist behaviors such as eating or
drinking too much. "We
have begun to link emotions with signs cardiovascular risk 'and the new
research adds evidence of a link, at New York University Medical Center
Langone and the American Heart Association spokeswoman.She had no role
in the studies discussed Sunday at the Conference of the American
College of Cardiology in San Francisco. The
largest, includes 207,954 veterans in the state of California and
Nevada ages from 46 to 74, compared with those PTSD to those without it.
were free of heart disease and diabetes when major researchers examined
veterans medical records management in 2009 and again 2010 .
Checked about two years later, 35 percent of those who have PTSD, but
only 19 percent of those placed without insulin resistance, which can
lead to diabetes and hardening arteries.Doctors also experienced higher
rates of metabolic syndrome _
a combination of factors risk of heart disease, which include high body
fat, cholesterol, and blood pressure and blood sugar levels.About 53
percent of veterans with PTSD, but only 37 and said one leader study,
Dr. Ramin Ebrahimi, a cardiologist in
the Greater Los Angeles VA Medical percent of those without it, many of
these figures are estimates and symptoms.The no less important than the
trend _ heart more risk with more stress, the center and a professor at
the University of California. it shows that the disorder after trauma
can cause physical symptoms, and not just those commonly associated
with mental. "Twenty or 30 years ago PTSD is a term reserved for
veterans. We
have come to realize now that PTSD is actually more common disorder can
occur in veterans who did not have the fighting, but was a very painful
experience 'like losing a friend, he said.That applies to others who
suffer such shocks as being raped , said robbed at gunpoint or in a serious accident. Nearly
8 million Americans suffer from PTSD, and the National Institute of
Mental Health estimates.They include survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Led
Tulane Medical Center doctors examine patients in their hospitals that
indicates a heart attack is three times higher in New Orleans than it
was in the years before the attacks storm.Heart 2005 up 2.4% of
admissions in the six years after the storm, compared with 0.7 per percent before. Researchers
found found.A third study of patients after the storm were more
vulnerable to unemployment or uninsured, smoking, and that depression,
anxiety or high cholesterol, heart attacks, which have risen sharply in
the region of Messinia southwest Greece since January 2008 , the start of the financial crisis in that country. Researchers
compared the medical records of more than 22,000 patients admitted to
the general hospital in Kalamata hospital _ only with the Department of
the heart and blood vessels in the heart region.There The attacks of
1084 in the four years after the crisis began to 841 compared to the
four years before that, on Although
still the population and demographics where an attack same.Heart rose
40 percent among women, who have higher unemployment than men and tend
to be more responsible for the care of children _ double burden of
stress, said lead researcher, Dr. Emmanouil Makaris.
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