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Does psychosocial stress increase the risk of ischaemic heart disease?
This literature review supports an association between psychosocial stress and the development of ischaemic heart disease.
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Supports military stress as potential CVD risk factor; leaves open prospective confirmation and intervention effects.
In a recent article appearing in this journal, a decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal granting a war pension for ischaemic heart disease arising out of the stresses of military service in World War II was severely criticised. The following is a literature review supporting the Tribunal's judgement by providing evidence for an association between both neurotic illness and stresses of varying severity on the one hand and cardiovascular disease on the other.
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Bruce M. Boman (1982) conducted a review in Ischaemic heart disease. Psychosocial stress and neurotic illness was evaluated on Cardiovascular disease.
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