Anxiety raises heart attack risk

Anxiety disorders, heart attack, stroke, heart failure in people with heart disease and increase the risk of death.

Anxiety is common in patients with heart disease, but studies examining the effect of anxiety on cardiovascular prognosis has thrown up conflicting results. Assess the impact on heart disease, generalized anxiety disorder, anxiety disorder researchers for stable coronary artery disease who were evaluated at baseline and diagnostic interviews with using 1015 for almost six years after the U.S. followed.

Study, conducted by Elizabeth J. Martens, Ph.D., Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands University, and colleagues found that anxiety disorders 74 per cent risk of cardiovascular events was associated with an increase of cardiovascular events.