When Stress, Women Prone to Heart Attack

A latest research indicates that mental stress experienced by women make them at greater risk of heart attack than men. The study results showed that during periods of mental stress, women blood flow to heart tend to increase in men. However, in women, these conditions can not be seen from outside.

Researchers concluded that women becomes more susceptible to heart problems when under stress than men. The findings will be presented this week in Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego, California.

In research, researchers involve 17 healthy men and women. Blood pressure and heart rate of participants was measured during take rest and during feeling stress. The researchers used ultrasound scans to measure participants blood flow in coronary arteries, which are blood vessels that supply blood to heart.

Why Broken Heart can affect the Body?

Since long ago,  poet and songwriter have made broken heart because of breakup as a source of inspiration that never dry. Not only felt by feeling, but heartbreak can also cause disease in body such as dizziness, shortness, and also burning in the chest.

Fortunately, scientists finally succeed to uncover the reason why a broken heart or liver pain can affect a pain in the body. Apparently, the brain that responds to pain and heartbreak, is the same part with parts of the brain that responds to other pain, such as burns.