Why the study?
Do higher stressful life events and social strain increase the risk of incident cardiovascular disease in women?
Do higher stressful life events and social strain increase the risk of incident cardiovascular disease in women?
Stressful life events and social strain are associated with incident cardiovascular disease, though this relationship appears to be mediated by behavioral and biological risk factors.
Higher stress linked to CVD via behaviors; hypothesis-generating, should not change practice pending trials.
Higher SLE and social strain were associated with higher incident CVD independent of sociodemographic factors and depressive symptoms, but not behavioral and biological risk factors.
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Kershaw et al. (2014) studied this question.
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