10 Aug 2010

Bad news triggers heart attacks

heart attack, disease
Secrets of the impact of bad news that can shock the heart can be solved by a research team from John Hopkins University led Ilan Wittstein. As published by the New England Journal of Medicine, Ilan Wittstein states that bad news is closely linked to the release of several hormones.

A number of hormones such as adrenaline and other hormones surprise, was mentioned to shock the heart after someone heard a bad or sad news. From the published studies mentioned also that if not handled properly, it could be misconstrued as mean a heart attack.

Since the shock caused only temporary, especially on weekends only. After doing research on 19 patients coming to hospital with symptoms similar to a heart attack the researchers noticed that unlike other heart attack symptoms in patients who are generally elderly women was not found blood clots in arterti like most other heart attack patients.

The doctors who initially considered as a heart attack was found that there "collision" high stress hormones, especially on adrenalin and noradrenaline in patients in their blood. Said researchers, "stress hormones can be toxic and highly effective at heart to be a surprise".

Patients who experience high stress also has a brain hormone called brain natriuretic peptide "as well as an indication that the heart is working above normal. Monitoring results with less use echocardiograms" which is used to measure cardiac function also showed a unique wave after a patient reportedly had a heart attack.

In the case of a heart attack, a new patient can recover after a few weeks or months. What is certain team from the University of Hopkins researchers did not explain how stress hormones can affect the heart.

They only see the possibility of a chemical liquid that could affect your heart rate so that the heart has overloaded. The team recommends continued research doing to people who genetically have these conditions.

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