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Do people get some cardiovascular diseases from anxiety because their hearts beat so fast, or because their blood vessels constrict?
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Risk factor: Stress can increase hormonal changes that influence cardiovascular disease. Anxiety itself is not an associated factor but it your anxiety is the result of a high stress lifestyle then it is not helping.
Answered 10/13/2014
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No proof: anxiety could worsen the course of cardiovascular disease, exacerbate an underlying cardiac problem like angina, palpitaions, arrhythmias....There is no proof that it "creates"cardiovascular disease. Definitely, it doesn't help.
Answered 9/28/2016
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