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Emotional Factors and Cardiovascular Disease: Differences by Sex and Age

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Air date:	Friday, May 16, 2014, 2:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 433 (31 Live, 402 On-demand)
Category:	BSSR - Behavioral and Social Sciences
Runtime:	00:53:44
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Description:	BSSR Lecture Series There is growing recognition of the importance of emotional stress as a potentially modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Emotional stress potentially contributes to CVD in multiple ways, from influencing CVD risk factors, to affecting the development of atherosclerosis, to triggering acute CVD events, to impairing recovery, prognosis and quality of life of patients who have already developed the disease. Emerging evidence suggests that young individuals, young women in particular, are especially vulnerable to the adverse effects of stress on the cardiovascular system, which may result in earlier onset of CVD or more adverse prognosis if the disease is already manifest. Women’s susceptibility to psychosocial stress could play a role in sex differences in the pathophysiology and outcome of CVD. For example, it could help explain the higher propensity of women toward microvascular dysfunction, which has been linked to emotional stress. It could also explain why young women with an acute myocardial infarction have twice the mortality than men of the same age despite less severe coronary disease. Future research should study women and men earlier in their life to better understand the risk pathways linking emotional stress to CVD risk and devise successful interventions to ameliorate such risk.

NLM Title:	Emotional factors and cardiovascular disease : differences by sex and age / Viola Vaccarino.
Author:	Vaccarino, Viola. National Institutes of Health (U.S.),
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Abstract:	(CIT): There is growing recognition of the importance of emotional stress as a potentially modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Emotional stress potentially contributes to CVD in multiple ways, from influencing CVD risk factors, to affecting the development of atherosclerosis, to triggering acute CVD events, to impairing recovery, prognosis and quality of life of patients who have already developed the disease. Emerging evidence suggests that young individuals, young women in particular, are especially vulnerable to the adverse effects of stress on the cardiovascular system, which may result in earlier onset of CVD or more adverse prognosis if the disease is already manifest. Women"s susceptibility to psychosocial stress could play a role in sex differences in the pathophysiology and outcome of CVD. For example, it could help explain the higher propensity of women toward microvascular dysfunction, which has been linked to emotional stress. It could also explain why young women with an acute myocardial infarction have twice the mortality than men of the same age despite less severe coronary disease. Future research should study women and men earlier in their life to better understand the risk pathways linking emotional stress to CVD risk and devise successful interventions to ameliorate such risk.
Subjects:	Age Factors Coronary Disease--etiology Sex Factors Women's Health
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast

NLM Classification:	WG 300
NLM ID:	101634140
CIT Live ID:	14192
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=14192

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