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The Link between Mental-Health Conditions And Cardiovascular Disease

Scopeblog.stanford.edu 10/28/2014

“… A growing body of research has shown the connection between our emotional well-being and physical health. They found that patients who had a mental illness at any point in their life were twice as likely to have had a stroke or experienced heart disease than the general population, while patients who had not experienced heart disease or stroke had a higher long-term risk of cardiovascular disease. …”

Read the entire article: http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2014/10/27/patients-with-mental-health-conditions-may-have-an-increased-risk-of-heart-disease-stroke/