Heart Attack and Mental Disorders, Are they interrelated?

In the past, heart attack has been affiliated with depression, anxiety, stress and eating habits. A normal person was accused of having either of the above described. In the present times, medicine and research has excelled beyond the imagination of the Son of Adam.

Coronary Heart Disease is caused by residue or plaque built-up in the arteries, which lead to the heart. One in every four deaths, in the world, occurs due to heart diseases.

Research has now proven that those people who have mental disorders have a higher risk of developing Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). The people with any kind of psychological disorder also get affected by this disease. Now the factors of getting a heart attack have increased three-folds, because there are numerous mental disorders present in the world today. Mental maladies like Schizophrenia, Bipolar, depression, personality disorders and many more, increase the percentage of having a heart attack.

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