Stress Management May Help Heart Disease Patients
Adding stress management to routine heart disease treatment might lessen some patients' long-term risk of complications.
A 5-year study of men with heart disease showed that those who went through 4 months of stress management training were less likely to need a heart procedure such as bypass surgery over the study period.
Overall, few of the 94 men in the study had a heart attack, and only
one died. But in the study's first year, two men who received only
standard care had a heart attack, while none in the stress reduction
group did.
And despite the added cost of stress management training, patients in this group had lower hospitalization and physicians' costs over 5 years than men in the standard care group did. Costs in the exercise group were similar to the stress reduction group's.
These findings confirm the added value of stress management training
to usual medical care, and indicate that such training is associated
with fewer adverse cardiac events and less medical expenditures.
The study's stress management was geared specifically to heart
patients, providing information on heart disease and its risk factors
as well as techniques for lowering stress.
Men in the stress management group went through 16 small-group
sessions that provided them with ways to control negative emotions and
thoughts, techniques for muscle relaxation and other stress-calming
tactics.
Patients did not enter this study "complaining of stress" -- which
suggests heart disease patients need not feel stress is a problem to
benefit from stress management.
American Journal of Cardiology
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This, of course, is not new information. But the evidence is
quite loud and clear. Stress likely causes more heart attack deaths
than high cholesterol and smoking combined.
Yet our country spends many tens of billions of dollars on drugs
to lower their cholesterol and virtually ignores stress management
tools.
There are certainly many effective ways to address this stress.
My experience though is that bioenergetic normalization is the easiest,
most effective and consistently effective. I have settled on EFT as my way of facilitating that improvement.
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that act as prime contributors to all forms of diseases.
Dr Mercola
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