Of all the diseases and disorders that can be caused or made worse by stress, the relationship between stress and heart disease, is probably the most clear. In a study of 12,000 Danish nurses, conducted over 15 years, those nurses who reported high levels of stress had a 50% increase in heart disease. There’s a doctor who works at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston named Martin Samuels who studies the relationship between thinking and heart disease. These stress hormones help to rev up our bodies (and the heart in particular) to prepare us to fight an attacker or flee to safety. By causing you to dump massive amounts of stress hormones into the blood stream it can bring on sudden cardiac death.

Source: Forbes February 24, 2017 19:37 UTC