How Stress Affects Your Heart Health?
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Everyone experiences stress differently and everyone handles it differently. Happy moments, like a wedding or job promotion, can induce a stress response, while unfortunate moments like family problems or an illness, can also cause tension. How you react to these situations in life can have a lasting impact on your heart health. While experiencing stress on occasion is completely normal, many people suffer from chronic stress which is unhealthy and detrimental to the heart. Unmanaged chronic stress can lead to a host of issues like heart disease, high blood pressure, chest pain or irregular heartbeats. Today the top cardiologists of AMS Cardiology reveal how stress can affect your heart and some simple tips to manage it throughout your day. How Can Stress Affect Your Heart? Frequent episodes of stress raise your blood sugar and pressure. These are two of the most common contributors to heart disease. People who suffer from chronic stress indulge in less than healthy coping mechanis