by Carolyn Thomas
Cardiology researchers have recently begun calling on doctors to include the diagnosis and treatment of stress in the routine care for patients with heart disease.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, led by researchers at Université Laval in Quebec City, found that first-time heart attack survivors who returned to chronically stressful jobs within 18 months of their heart attacks were twice as likely to have a second heart attack as patients whose occupations were relatively stress-free, and also had a markedly higher risk of death than their less-stressed peers. click to continue reading
I was sent home from the Emergency Room with a misdiagnosis of indigestion (despite presenting with textbook heart attack symptoms like chest pain, sweating, nausea and pain radiating down my left arm) just two weeks before finally being hospitalized with a newly revised diagnosis of ”significant heart disease”.
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