Research
Neural
Higher psychosocial stress is significantly associated with increased risk of death, cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD), and stroke events.
Practitioners should consider psychosocial stress as a significant factor in assessing cardiovascular risk.
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This cohort study found that higher psychosocial stress, measured as a composite score of self-perceived stress, life events, and financial stress, was significantly associated with mortality as well as with CVD, CHD, and stroke events.
Why this rating
Based on the large prospective cohort study design.
Source
Psychosocial Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Disease and Death in a Population-Based Cohort From 21 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries
Ailiana Santosa et al. · JAMA Network Open · 2021
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