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Stress and Cardiovascular Disease

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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death globally despite an overall decrease in mortality and morbidity owing to recognition of risk factors, timely and appropriate therapy for acute events, and improved medical therapy in high-income countries. Moreover, the age-standardized rate of CVD has begun to rise in some locations where it was previously declining in high-income countries. Globally, the burden of CVD attributable to modifiable risk factors continues to increase along with the number of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) and deaths. Novel risk factors and modifications must be considered in the development and progression of CVD. Psychological and mental stress has been implicated as a significant risk factor in both the acceleration of atherosclerosis and a trigger for acute CVD events. There is growing evidence for the biological, neuroanatomical, and neurophysiological effects of stress on CVD and the benefits of mitigating it. There is a paucity of large, scalable, and cost-effective approaches for stress reduction.

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  1. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    B. S. Rishab Revankar

  2. Division of Cardiology, James A Haley VA Medical Center, Tampa, FL, USA

    Koushik R. Reddy

  3. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, MI, USA

    Kavitha M. Chinnaiyan

  4. Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA

    Kavitha M. Chinnaiyan

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Rishab Revankar, B.S., Reddy, K.R., Chinnaiyan, K.M. (2022). Stress and Cardiovascular Disease. In: Shapiro, M.D. (eds) Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Primary Prevention. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98824-1_20

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