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Does Stress Cause Heart Disease?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

When stress is included in the risk factor profile for a future heart attack, it comes in third on the list after abnormal cholesterol and smoking 1. And pretty much every doctor can recall an event where a patient experienced a suddenly stressful event and had a cardiac event. The link is real. For both acute and chronic stress.