Power positive emotions for winning the battle to stress.

-High blood pressure and increased heart rate are most important disorders.

-More than 40% of salaried workers and more than 50% of the entrepreneurs suffer from work-related stress according to the National Institute of statistics (INE). The uncertainty before the future employment and loss of revenue are recognized as triggers for stress

-Coordinator of the club heart Riojano, the cardiologist Julio Martinez Florez, accompanied the past Tuesday, 8 may at 20.00 p.m. in Centre Cultural Caja Rioja Gran Vía, to the Hospital Viamed Los Manzanos, Rosa María Hidalgo Rodriguez, psychologist at the last Conference of the Riojan heart Club in this season that the specialist devoted on this occasion, to the stress ”

-stress is a result of psychological pressure to external stimuli that can not cope or overflow us. When we are stressed, our blood pressure increases and with it the risk of cardiovascular diseases

-stand up to stress becoming aware of the situation, learning to reduce the negative responses to external stimuli and develop the awareness that we can overcome it, is the proposal we made Rosa María Hidalgo to learn to control it and minimize their effects

Logroño, 2012-may the past, Tuesday, 8 may at 20.00 p.m. in Centre Cultural Caja Rioja, took place the last Conference of the 2011-2012 Edition of the Riojan heart Club coordinates the cardiologist Dr. Julio Martinez Florez. The psychologist of the Hospital Viamed Los Manzanos, Rosa María Rodríguez Hidalgo has been responsible for teaching this workshop dedicated to the stress was aimed at those people who in addition to wanting to know what stress is, what effects produced on the heart or how preventablewanted to get some of the strategies needed to control it. The entrance has been free. As on other occasions the Conference counted sign language interpreter and was broadcast in streaming through larioja.com.

The word stress began to be used in physics, and was not until the 1930s when it begins to be used to refer to the circumstances and events that influence on a person and cause reactions in it. Stress is a normal physiological phenomenon, the response issued by a body to stimuli perceived as threatening. For this reason, good stress is positive: helps to cope with demanding situations and to react to the demands of the environment. Negative stress or distress, occurs when the body is not able to adapt to the situation, to give appropriate responses to the demands of the environment. There is an activation and anxiety unconscionable, accompanied by a failure to focus effectively on the tasks.

Stress occurs, in lesser or greater extent, according to individual capacity to respond to him. All this makes it difficult to control as a cardiovascular risk factor, because that depends on the individual to adapt to this situation that is affecting and how her faces.

Stress prolonged in time also produces physiological substantial damage affecting the digestive, muscular, circulatory apparatus and even the skin. With regard to the heart, stress modifies the chemical substances in the body that contribute to heart disease that releasing Adrenaline and noradrenaline, which make the heart rate and blood pressure increase.

Rosa María Hidalgo

El estrés contribuye también a la presión arterial alta, colesterol alto, tabaquismo, ingesta excesiva de alimentos y falta de ejercicio, que desembocan en enfermedad cardiovascular. But in addition, stress is one risk even greater for people who have already suffered cardiovascular accidents.

When the symptoms of stress start to harm our quality of life by causing psychological suffering, irritability, decrease in work performance, difficulties in concentration, insomnia or pessimistic view of reality, we must use specialized help.

Club heart Riojano is an initiative of the Hospital Viamed Los Manzanos in collaboration with Caja Rioja Foundation that emerges with the goal of being a meeting point where Rioja, well because suffered some cardiovascular process, either by having a family member with cardiovascular disease, good to be sensitive to the need for a heart life, find support, help, answer to your questions, guidelines for living more heart in the end.