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Although there is the idea that excessive stress can cause a stroke (CVA), a new study found no evidence that stressful experiences enhance the risk of a deadly type of stroke.

The study, published in Stroke, examined the relationship between stress and the risk of subarachnoid hemorrhage, which occurs when the rupture of a vessel causes bleeding into the space surrounding the brain. Up to half of cases are fatal. It is common that people attributed to sudden stress health problems, such as a stroke, said Dr. Craig S. Anderson, George Institute for International Health and the University of Sydney, Australia.

In the case of a subarachnoid hemorrhage, told Reuters Health, it is possible that a sudden increase in pressure produces a rupture in an aneurysm, a weakened area in the wall of an artery. Sometimes this bleeding occurs by a sudden exertion, such as during exercise or sex, said Anderson. But whether stressful life events increase the risk of suffering a stroke.

Anderson’s team interviewed 388 survivors of subarachnoid hemorrhage who had undergone stressful experiences between one month and one year before the stroke. The survey focused on 12 types of situations, such as the death of a relative or friend, loss of job or have suffered a crime. The team then compared the responses with those of a control group of 473 people the same age who had never suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage. And most of the situations was not related to the risk of bleeding.

But analyzing the experiences of the previous month, two types of stressors, financial or legal problems and “other significant events” – yes were associated with increased risk. 10 percent of the survivors said they had a financial or legal problem the month before the bleeding, as opposed to 4 percent in the control group.

But in considering factors such as hypertension, smoking and alcohol consumption, the relationship between these stressors and the bleeding was only “marginally” significant. There was also an association between the occurrence of subarachnoid hemorrhage have been the victim of a crime the previous year (4 percent of survivors and 1 percent of the control group).
On the other hand, the risk of bleeding decreased in those who had had a family member or friend very ill or had an accident the previous year.

That, according to the researchers, is that the study looked at 12 types of experiences, the few that were weakly associated with the risk of bleeding as they were by chance alone.
Stress, Anderson said, it is very difficult to measure for researchers. The study used an approach of analyzing the rates of the major events that often cause psychological stress. Are unknown real individual responses to these situations. Still, “we can say that ‘stressful experiences’ are not an important risk factor for subarachnoid hemorrhage.”

To prevent it, recommended that people focus on preventing or treating known risk factors of cerebral hemorrhage, which include smoking and hypertension.

In Spain, researchers at the University of Navarra claim that stress can increase the risk for Alzheimer’s, a disease in which only one percent of patients are genetically predisposed to suffer.

Solas Maite Navarra, commissioned the study, performed the experiment with mice exposed to stress both postnatal (early life), as in adulthood, in both cases, we found that anxiety contributed to the development of cognitive deficits and increased markers present in Alzheimer patients.

The specialist added that age and genetics may be decisive in the initiation and progression of Alzheimer’s. “If we can control the stress involved with drugs, perhaps we are witnessing a fundamental therapy for treating disease,” he said.

In this sense, the Spanish researcher, Ángel Mínguez Strainer, said that clues to understanding the origin of the disease is now focusing on analyzing factors that are known determinants, “the lack of sport, high cholesterol, hypertension, a diet low healthier, less social relations and a brain less worked, all typical of modern life.

When the origin of a physical problem has its starting point in a psychological aspect, then we speak of psychosomatic disorders.

In this blog we tell health details of a problem estimated to affect about 30% of patients who seek medical care.

Have physical symptoms and not knowing where they come from. Try everything to solve these problems but nothing that can not be solved.

In many cases, when a patient has physical problems, often have a psychological origin and we are talking about a psychosomatic disorder.

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Study and work. Keeping the home or help the family. Caring for family and friends. Designing a better future and while surfing today. Today, young people have the full agenda and report, confirmed by experts, begins to fail. The reason for these “blackouts”, has a name: stress, invisible enemy that eats away the heads and bodies, and that he was no longer the exclusive preserve of adults. The concern of the experts is that very few reported that they forget that their activities or have trouble concentrating because they are depleted or too pressured. And if the query is not done in time, is more difficult to reverse the picture. Read the rest of this entry »

Stress, in turn, is a very important factor in the production of brain and myocardial infarction. It is quite common that a person with risk factors with an inherited tendency, triggering a stroke in the context of a stressful situation.

Unfortunately, it is a situation difficult to control medically, which affects the quality of life in general, and especially in big cities today, with so many people stressed, where interpersonal contact is very difficult.

Stress can often go unnoticed. Some people are very sensitive, low stress tolerance, which develops symptoms as a little sweating, dizziness, sometimes can be a high blood pressure, gastritis, depends on what the regular expression that has that personal.

The doctor has to talk a lot with the patient to know if you’re stressed, find out what is happening if the symptoms are transient, if there are other causes that produce stress.

Many times, the experts conclude that someone is suffering stress through directed questioning and in sufficient time to do it.

Stress is a more specific field of psychiatry to neurology, but what is clear is that a painting can become prolonged depression and panic attacks.

Many times you have to prescribe antidepressant medication. There are new medications that are antidepressants last generation, very tolerated, very effective for panic crisis that usually come after prolonged stress.