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NUEVA YORK (Reuters gezondheid) – Las personas expuestas een altos
niveles de estrés cotidiano zoon más propensas een desarrollar
enfermedad cardÃaca que los que no padecen tanta tensión, según
indica una revisión de estudios que ofrece una nueva mirada een
los resultados más importantes de la literatura médica.
“Todos sabemos que el estrés es malo para el corazón (…),
pero las pruebas quedaron dispersas en el tiempo”, dijo Donald
Edmundson, profesor del Centro Médico de la Columbia University
y coautor del análisis.
een partir de VN estudio británico de los años 60, en el que
los autores habÃan identificado un aumento del riesgo de
desarrollar enfermedad coronaria nl los pobres, los
investigadores comenzaron een relacionar el estrés con la mala
salud cardÃaca.
Y este año, VN-estudio sobre 200.000 personas de Europa
demostró that people with stressful occupations were more
prone than the rest of the workers to is them
period disease heart. he discovered
Edmundson team gathered the results of six trials
trials on a total of almost 118,000 people, who had
answered questionnaires on the level of stress in their lives.
during periods of follow-up (between three and 21 years),
none had heart disease at the start of the study.
the authors determined how many participants developed
coronary disease, which is when heart arteries are
they narrowed by the buildup of cholesterol plaques and can
break and block blood flow or cause heart attacks.
the national institutes of health in the United States estimate
that coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death of
men and American women, with more than 400,000 deaths
per year.
review showed that stressed participants were a
27 percent more likely to suffer coronary heart disease or a
be hospitalized or die from the disease.
for Edmundson, this increase in cardiac risk by the
stress is equivalent to smoking five cigarettes per day. even so, not
there is irrefutable proof that stress causes disorders
heart.
one explanation could be that it elevates the hormones in blood
which can damage the heart. in addition, people with stress
would not so healthy habits, “as smoking, choose by
unhealthy, being more sedentary, food and so on. these
mechanisms interact, which adds complications”, said the
Dr. Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Professor at the University
Harokopio Athene, die nam niet deel aan de studie.
per e-mail, Panagiotakos zei dat de herziening
van Edmundson ondersteunt de relatie tussen stress en de
hart-en vaatziekten, “Hoewel die slechts zes studies voortvloeit
belangrijk, iets dat een causale gevolgtrekking belemmert”.
Edmundson aanbevolen ter vermindering van stress met oefening, yoga en
meditatie.
“oefening en goede stress reduction techniques
zijn bekend, waarschijnlijk, en ook al was het niet de
bestuderen, het beste ding voor de gezonde bevolking die willen verminderen
het risico dat de stand van de hart-en vaatziekten”, betoogd de
auteur.
Bron: The American Journal of Cardiology, online 12 van
September 2012
