Scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School found that people with anxiety, depression and genetic susceptibility to stress have an increased risk of heart attack when they experience excessive anxiety. Research results presented On the American College of Cardiology (ACC) website.
During the research, scientists analyzed the health data of 18,428 people. The researchers collected information about the subjects’ presence of mental disorders and subjected them to the Neuroticism Polygenic Risk Score (nPRS). This is a test whose results reflect a person’s genetic predisposition to stress.
It turned out that people who scored higher on the nPRS scale for neuroticism were 34% more likely to have a heart attack during periods of high anxiety than people who were more stressed. The study noted that stressful periods mean periods of time reserved for major sporting events, presidential elections and holidays.
They also found that anxiety or depression accounted for almost a quarter of the correlation between neuroticism scores and stress-related heart attacks. According to researchers, these mental disorders may help identify increased risk of heart attack in cases where genetic testing is not possible.
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Source: Gazeta
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