Cardiovascular diseases; It covers all diseases that affect the heart and blood vessels, such as heart attack and stroke. A group of scientists in Switzerland studied the impact of work stress on cardiovascular diseases, which cause millions of deaths each year.
The study, which was conducted with more than 100,000 participants from 21 countries, showed that high stress levels increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Many studies so far have proven that long-term stress can increase blood cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure. New research has revealed that worries such as job stress and salary anxiety significantly increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Financial worries increase heart disease
The research, published in the scientific journal JAMA Network Open, is based on data collected between January 2003 and March 2021 from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study. In the study, high incomes such as Canada and Sweden; Citizens living in 21 countries with different income levels, including middle-level such as Brazil and Poland and low-income such as India and Pakistan, were examined. Ages ranged from 35 to 79 in the study, which included both male and female participants. Participants were asked questions to answer by grading their stress rate from zero to three. In the study, ‘stress’ was defined as factors at work or home, financial difficulties, or feeling irritable, tense, anxious.
In the results, it was determined that 7.3 percent of the participants were exposed to severe stress, 18.4 percent were exposed to moderate stress, 29.4 percent were exposed to low stress, and 44 percent were not exposed to any stress. In the study, which lasted about 10 years, 5,934 people had cardiovascular-related health problems with complaints such as stroke or heart failure. High-stress participants had a 24 percent increased risk of heart attack and a 30 percent increased risk of stroke. It has been determined that people experiencing severe stress are generally younger and are under stress due to work problems and financial problems.
Annika Rosengren, a professor of medicine at the University of Gothenburg, one of the study’s authors, said: “It is not known exactly what causes the high risk of cardiovascular disease in people who are overly stressed. However, many processes in the body, such as atherosclerosis and blood clotting, can be affected by stress. Rosengren also stated that stress should be considered as a modifiable risk factor in order to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease globally.
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