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Exposure to COVID-19 pandemic stressors exacerbates the bidirectional relationship between cardiovascular disease and mental illness, necessitating early psychological interventions.
Highlights the critical need for early psychological interventions to mitigate the bidirectional cardiovascular and mental health impacts of COVID-19 pandemic stressors.
From the time of Hippocratic medicine, heart-brain interactions have been recognized and contributed to both mental and physical health. Heart-brain interactions are complex and multifaceted and appear to be bidirectional. Exposure to chronic and daily stressors such as quarantine, or severe psychological trauma like a significant person in danger of life can affect the cardiovascular system and the emotional experience of the individual, leading to an increased risk of developing a cardiovascular disease or mental illness. Subjects with comorbidities between mental disorders and heart diseases are obviously more susceptible to be influenced by emotional burden due to the spread of COVID-19, with emotional responses characterized by fear, panic, anger, frustration. Psychological services and crisis interventions are needed at an early stage to reduce anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in such a stressful period, with a special attention to special groups of patients, such as women, children, or the elderly.
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A 2021 study conducted an editorial in Cardiovascular disease and mental illness. COVID-19 pandemic stressors was evaluated. Exposure to COVID-19 pandemic stressors exacerbates the bidirectional relationship between cardiovascular disease and mental illness, necessitating early psychological interventions.
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