If you find symptoms of post-traumatic stress, which include a tendency to startle at loud noises, nightmares and flashbacks then your chances of suffering from heart attacks and fatal coronary heart disease are quite higher. For the first time, a study has come out linking post-traumatic stress with heart health and coming out with such conclusion researchers tracked several people and found that a big percentage of people with post-traumatic stress symptoms developed heart diseases and among those diseases most prominent was fatal coronary disease.
This study is quite significant because this is first study of its kind, which uncovers the link between heart health and post-traumatic stress. If we say that these symptoms provide us with an opportunity to take strong measures to prevent heart diseases then it would also not be wrong to say so.
Moreover, now we can approach P.T.S.D. in a whole new way, paying more emphasis on psychological and other treatments required to dilute the effect of trauma or other events in patients.
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Via: NY Times
