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Anxiety and Heart Disease

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Anxiety and cardiovascular disease

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Anxiety is an emotional response to a situation, which has both psychological and physiological consequences. Anxiety may be a normal response to daily life situations. However, a heightened or an inappropriate level of anxiety may lead to several deleterious consequences to overall health. There is mounting research about the role of anxiety in the pathophysiology of heart disease.

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In the past decade, there has been increasing interest in the relationship between anxiety and heart disease. As reviewed by Rozanski et al. (1999) prior to 1999, there were a limited number of prospective studies demonstrating a relationship between anxiety and subsequent cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes in healthy populations and in patients with prevalent CVD.

After these initial studies, additional prospective studies examining the relationship between anxiety and CVD outcomes in participants without prior CVD history have been...

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  1. Center of Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Division of General Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Manjunath Harlapur

  2. Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Daichi Shimbo

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  1. University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

    Marc Gellman

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  1. School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Linda C. Baumann

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Harlapur, M., Shimbo, D. (2019). Anxiety and Heart Disease. In: Gellman, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_1248-2

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