Aug

27

Can Depression and Anxiety lead to people easily having heart attacks?

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Lee S asked:


i suffer from severe depression and anxiety and when im anxious my heartbeat races fast and my chest tightens.

i was wondering if heart attacks can easily happen to people whom suffer from depression and anxiety and could anyone give me a valid reason why i it can.

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    No Responses to “Can Depression and Anxiety lead to people easily having heart attacks?”

    1. essentiallysolo on August 30th, 2010 2:45 am

      there is documentation that shows that chronic depression and anxiety can contribute to heart disease, look it up in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

    2. Jenn :) on September 2nd, 2010 11:18 am

      My body not really extreme panic attacks and feel as though they could be having negative effect on.