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New study shows clear link between stress and heart disease

January 20, 2010Cara Flanagan

A team at the University of London have just published a  report of their study linking stress to atheroschlerosis (narrowing of the arteries), which is a major factor in heart attacks. Hamer et al. (2010) worked with 514 healthy men and women (mean age 62.9 years). The participants were given various tasks to increase their stress […]

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