Workplace Stress

Workplace Stress and Heart Disease By Paual Rasich Reviewed by Elizabeth Klodas, MD, FACC For years medical research has steadily found tiny clues that chronic stress may takes a toll on your health and shorten your life. Now the first large-scale study illuminates the definitive links between long-term mental stress and heart disease./.../

Social Stress

Science News

Social Stress Linked To Harmful Fat Deposits, Heart Disease

ScienceDaily (Aug. 5, 2009) — A new study done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that social stress could be an important precursor to heart disease by causing the body to deposit more fat in the abdominal cavity, speeding the harmful buildup of plaque in blood vessels, a stepping stone to the number one cause of death in the world./.../