Brain-heart connections in stress and cardiovascular disease: Implications for the cardiac patient

2021/05/30 by Viola Vaccarino, Amit J. Shah, Amit Shah +6 · 96 citations
Medicine · #Cardiac Health and Mental Health #Cardiology #Disease #Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control #Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders #Internal medicine #Medicine #Philosophy #Stress (linguistics)

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2021.05.020

published in Atherosclerosis 328, 74-82 (Elsevier BV)

openalex publication_date 2021/05/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

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• Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease
• Brain on stress: How the social environment gets under the skin
• 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Peripheral Vasoconstriction During Mental Stress and Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease
• β2 adrenergic receptor–mediated signaling regulates the immunosuppressive potential of myeloid-derived suppressor cells
• Sex Differences in the Inflammatory Consequences of Stress: Implications for Pharmacotherapy

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