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SSM Health Medical Minute: Chronic Stress Can Lead to Heart Attack or Stroke

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A new study finds that chronic stress can lead to higher blood pressure, even in people without preexisting conditions. Even if your blood pressure is normal, high stress levels may put you at risk of developing hypertension within the next decade. Doubling the levels of cortisol alone was associated with a 90% higher risk of having a cardiovascular event. The American Heart Association published the study.

Dr. Abhay Laddu, cardiologist at SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital in Lake St. Louis says, “The higher one’s stress level is the greater one’s risk is for developing the same type of outcomes heart attack, chest pain, high blood pressure, stroke.”

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How Chronic Stress Harms Your Body

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We can’t avoid having stress, and that’s not always a bad thing. But if you are dealing with a lot of stress every day, it might cause you physical harm.

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Chronic Daily Headache – Mayo Clinic

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Rashmi B. Halker, M.D., a neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, discusses the management of chronic daily headache. She describes a study published in Cephalalgia which looked at the impact of placing patients with chronic daily headache on a steroid medication to help the withdrawal symptoms from their headache medicine. Learn more: http://mayocl.in/2z4j9dt
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