Stress and cardiovascular disease

Abstract

The available research evidence provides little scientific grounds for: concluding in individual cases that the continuing chronic stress of any particular job may have contributed directly to coronary heart disease; or recommending that any individual should avoid certain jobs or change to another job to prevent coronary heart disease. Evidence that concerns major acute stressors (including those at work) is more open, but such acute stressors usually are unpredictable and so generally cannot be anticipated or prevented. However, there is good evidence that stress and its psychological consequences do affect several conventional coronary risk factors. Show more