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June 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda MONDAY, June 18 (HealthDay News) —
People suffering from anxiety, depression, sleeplessness or other forms of
psychological distress are at greater risk of death from a stroke,
according to a new study.
Researchers from University College London pointed out that
psychological distress affects about 15 percent to 20 percent of the
general population. Previous research has linked these common mental
conditions with coronary artery disease, but an association with stroke
and other cardiovascular diseases has not been established, they said.
The researchers examined information from a study of 68,652 adults who
participated in the Health Survey for England. The vast majority of
participants were white, 45 percent were men and the average was about
55.
Nearly 15 percent of the people questioned said they were affected by
psychological distress, most of them women. Those who reported having
psychological distress also tended to be younger, smokers and taking
medication for high blood pressure. They also tended to have lower
incomes, the researchers added.
After following the participants for an average of about eight years,
the study’s authors found 2,367 deaths from ischemic heart disease
(blocked artery), stroke and other cardiovascular problems.
The study was published June 18 in CMAJ.
“Psychological distress was associated with death from cardiovascular
disease, and the relation remained consistent for specific disease
outcomes, including ischemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease,”
Dr. Mark Hamer, of the college department of epidemiology and public
health, and his co-authors said in a journal news release. “We saw an
association between psychological distress and risk of cerebrovascular
disease among our participants, all of whom had been free from
cardiovascular disease at baseline. This association was similar in size
to the association between psychological distress and ischemic heart
disease in the same group.”
The researchers concluded that questionnaires could help doctors screen
their patients for common mental illnesses, which could reduce their risk
of death from heart disease and stroke.
More information
The U.S. National Institutes of Health provides more information on the
causes of stroke.
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