Anxiety or depression can raise the risk of heart attack and stroke
Posted August 1, 2012 5:16 pm.
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Low level stress can raise the risk of fatal heart attacks and stroke.
Scottish scientists say people with anxiety or depression have a 20 per cent increased risk of death.
Dr. Tom Russ, of the University of Edinburgh, says people with low distress levels — about a quarter of the adult population — are unlikely to come to the attention of mental health services because they may not even be getting treatment.
The study is published online in the British Medical Journal.
