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Does Stress Cause Heart Disease?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

If you take someone who has multiple risk factors for heart disease, including diabetes, smoking, abnormal cholesterol and high blood pressure, they have a 42 times higher risk of a heart attack compared to someone who does not have any of these factors. That event might have been a heart rhythm issue or even a cardiac arrest.