What relationship does anxiety have with cardiovascular health? #228
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What relationship does anxiety have with cardiovascular health? According to data from the Scientific Societies of Primary Care*1 in 7 patients who see their GP suffer from stress or anxiety.**
In addition, numerous studies show the *direct relationship between anxiety and stress with the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases.
In fact, stress (physical and emotional) *is considered the trigger for many of these diseases in susceptible people: especially in cerebral ischemia, more commonly known as stroke, and also in myocardial diseases, such as angina pectoris. , or both symptomatic and asymptomatic heart attacks.
Stress and anxiety are also *related to high blood pressure and certain types of malignant arrhythmias, which, in turn, potentiate the rest of the cardiovascular risk factors.
You are more likely to have a heart attack during times of stress, because your heart races and your blood pressure rises. When this happens, the heart needs more oxygen. *This does not mean that stress causes cardiovascular diseases, but it does seem that it can aggravate them.
Therefore, the relationship between the two is direct and positive, that is, *the greater the anxiety, the greater the risk of suffering from these pathologies and vice versa.
The process seems quite easy to understand, *intense and continuous anxiety can alter heart rhythms, causing palpitations, arrhythmias and even tachycardia. Over time, *chronic anxiety that continually stresses the heart can weaken the cardiovascular system, and if severe enough, can lead to heart attack or stroke.
Likewise, *it has been possible to verify that emotional stress produces the same physiological changes as physical stress, with the difference that it has less impact on increasing heart rate.
How to prevent and stop it?
What relationship does anxiety have with cardiovascular health? The multitude of factors that surround us can cause stress and threaten our health.
Our internal clock is too sensitive and *insomnia, anxiety and headaches are just a small sample of the consequences.
Surely the recommendations that we are going to offer you are not the first time you have read them, but if you implement them in your
day to day and manage to integrate them into your daily routine, you will be reinforcing healthier lifestyle habits.
And while it may seem like a losing battle against stress at times, you have more ability to handle it than you think.
Recommendations to prevent anxiety
1. SLEEP HYGIENE
How are you sleeping? A good and restful sleep and daily rest is essential to avoid anxiety and stress.
2. TAKE CARE OF YOUR DIET
Have you ever heard that we are what we eat? Well, that’s where the issue goes, the idea is to try to eat a balanced diet, without
many excesses and with common sense.
3. DO SPORTS REGULARLY
You have to make a little effort and exert energy to be able to practice some sport on a regular basis. Try to find and choose the one
that you like the most and with an intensity and programming that is suitable for you.
4. PRACTICE MINDFULNESS
One of the best preventive measures against anxiety and stress is to get hold of useful tools such as Mindfulness, which manage to
reduce certain high levels and with which we learn to properly manage emotions, thus recovering personal, physical and mental well-being. .
We hope this article has been useful to you in learning about the relationship between anxiety and cardiovascular diseases. If you think you may be suffering from anxiety, contact a specialist who can help you.