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Stress calcifies heart

Stress calcifies heart

That stress is bad for your heart has always been a kind of popular wisdom with statements such as 'Watch out for your heart.' Now scientific research from the British Heart Foundation shows that stress really increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.

The study by the British organization also shows that the risk of a heart attack or stroke is growing as an extension of this. † Stress leaves traces of limescale, as it turns out.

The scientists' findings have been published in the European Heart Journal , a scientific journal of the English Heart Foundation. It described people from the age group of 53 to 76 years in whom, after undergoing a severe stress test had done, there was a high concentration of the 'stress hormone' cortisol. Immediately after the test, calcium deposits were observed in the blood vessels

Lime has been seen for some time as a risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease † According to the British scientists, this does not prove that stress is primarily responsible for the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases, but that it is an important factor is.