{"id":907,"date":"2017-01-12T03:04:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T03:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klinikong.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2017-01-12T03:04:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T03:04:51","slug":"how-stress-causes-heart-attacks-and-strokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/12\/how-stress-causes-heart-attacks-and-strokes\/","title":{"rendered":"How stress causes heart attacks and strokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"m_first-letter\">T<\/span>he reason why stress causes heart attacks and strokes may finally have been discovered by scientists, leading to hopes that it could be prevented.<\/p>\n<p>For years experts have puzzled as to how chronic anxiety leads to heart problems.<\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">But now scientists have found that people who have heightened activity in a part of the brain linked to stress &#8211; the amygdala &#8211; are more likely to develop cardiovascular events.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">The amygdala is responsible for telling the bone marrow to temporarily produce more white blood cells which fight infection and repair damage. It essentially prepares the body for a harmful experience, such as being punched and would have been vital to survival in our evolutionary past.<\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2017\/01\/11\/scientists-finally-discover-stress-causes-heart-attacks-strokes\/\">Click here for the complete story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason why stress causes heart attacks and strokes may finally have been discovered by scientists, leading to hopes that it could be prevented. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,175,309,310],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-body","tag-amygdala","tag-heart-attack","tag-stress","tag-stroke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}