Do stress management techniques reduce risk factors and mortality/morbidity for coronary heart disease?
Stress management techniques may be effective in reducing coronary heart disease risk factors and subsequent mortality and morbidity.
This paper reviews evidence for the effectiveness of stress management techniques in reducing three risk factors for coronary heart disease: Type A behaviour, raised serum cholesterol, and hypertension. Preliminary evidence suggests that such interventions not only reduce individual risk factors, they can also reduce mortality and morbidity to CHD. Consideration now has to be given to the most effective system of delivery of such interventions.
Bennett et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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