How does Stress affect Heart Health?

November 9, 2022
Posted by Dr. Vaidya Karanvir Singh
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Introduction: Primarily the day to day life habits of every individual is changing giving rise to lifestyle diseases in abundance. All these lifestyle disorders further lead to severe chronic non communicable diseases which are proven to be life threatening. Present day lifestyle brings a lot of stress in return. Stress is the response to a psychological or physical trigger that the body faces as threatening or challenging. And this stress is the biggest factor contributing to heart disease or cardiovascular diseases. Heart, its vessels, its valves, the heart’s electrical pathway, muscle contraction all get affected by the stress.

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Causative agents contributing to stress and heart diseases:

Lack of physical exercise
Unhealthy eating
Lack of physical exercise
Obesity
smoking
Alcoholism
Loss of loved one
Intense fear
Chronic illness

What does stress do to heart?

Our body has a mechanism to cope up with the everyday mild stress. But when the stress is chronic or long lasting it has harmful effects on our body. Stresses that increase the risk of heart disease are perceived stress.

Work related stress, social isolation, stresses during childhood. During stress our body releases hormones like adrenaline and cortisol that may increase the heart rate, raises glucose levels. Both these factors are well known contributors to heart disease.

Stress affects heart as follows:

Cardiovascular disease (affecting heart vessels)
Cardiomyopathies (affecting heart muscles)
Coronary heart disease
Stroke
Arrhythmias
Death

Stress give rise to various symptoms like:

Chest pain
Sweating
High blood pressure
Irregular heart rate
Shortness of breath
Dizziness
Confusion

Preventive measures:

Regular exercise
Healthy diet
Meditation and mindfulness
Staying happy
Therapy

Managing heart health with Chandigarh Ayurved Centre

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