SOURCE: Medical News Today
DATE: August 29, 2009
EXCERPT: "Healthy middle-aged women with feelings of hopelessness appear to experience thickening of the neck arteries, which can be a precursor to stroke, according to new research ... The study found a consistent, progressive, and linear association between increasing neck artery thickness and rising levels of hopelessness. ... this is the first study to suggest that hopelessness may be related to subclinical cardiovascular disease in women without clinical symptoms of heart disease and who are generally healthy .... These findings suggest that women who experience feelings of hopelessness may have greater risk for future heart disease and stroke." more
RELATED PUBMED LINK:
Whipple MO, Lewis TT, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Matthews KA, Barinas-Mitchell E, Powell LH, Everson-Rose SA. Hopelessness, depressive symptoms, and carotid atherosclerosis in women: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) heart study. Stroke. 2009 Oct;40(10):3166-72.
DATE: August 29, 2009
EXCERPT: "Healthy middle-aged women with feelings of hopelessness appear to experience thickening of the neck arteries, which can be a precursor to stroke, according to new research ... The study found a consistent, progressive, and linear association between increasing neck artery thickness and rising levels of hopelessness. ... this is the first study to suggest that hopelessness may be related to subclinical cardiovascular disease in women without clinical symptoms of heart disease and who are generally healthy .... These findings suggest that women who experience feelings of hopelessness may have greater risk for future heart disease and stroke." more
RELATED PUBMED LINK:
Whipple MO, Lewis TT, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Matthews KA, Barinas-Mitchell E, Powell LH, Everson-Rose SA. Hopelessness, depressive symptoms, and carotid atherosclerosis in women: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) heart study. Stroke. 2009 Oct;40(10):3166-72.
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