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For some women response to emotional stress may be linked to heart artery dysfunction

March 16, 2014 by

Microvascular coronary dysfunction, which occurs more often in women than men, may be triggered by emotional stress, leading to heart attacks and other cardiac problems, researchers sayResearchers at the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have found that emotional stressors - such as those provoking anger - may cause changes in the nervous system that...

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