Pressure in modern society is everywhere, the pressure of work, the pressure of life, the pressure of study... Let everyone have some bad emotions to a greater or lesser extent. Bad emotions not only make us feel low, but also endanger our health at any time. Why is this? Recently, a study by Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital found that patients with higher stress-related neural activity had more prominent coronary inflammation, a higher incidence of high-risk plaques, and a corresponding worse clinical prognosis, that is, poor mood and injury to the heart.
Is good or bad mood related to health? Frequent anger increases the risk of heart disease, stroke and other diseases
Emotions are closely related to health, for example, great compassion and great joy can induce broken heart syndrome, that is, stress cardiomyopathy. A Swedish cohort study including nearly 50,000 people found that frequent anger can lead to cardiovascular death, and may also lead to heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Men and people with diabetes especially need to be alert to heart failure. Multivariate analysis showed that people who were often angry had a 23% increased risk of cardiovascular death, a 19% increased risk of heart failure and 16% increased risk of atrial fibrillation, respectively. Sensitivity analysis excluding people with cardiovascular disease at baseline showed a 28% increased risk of cardiovascular death in people who were often angry.
A large international study found that 15% of people had been angry or emotionally unstable 1 hour before the onset of myocardial infarction. Anger or emotional instability doubles the risk of myocardial infarction. An analysis by the International Stroke Study showed that anger and upset can trigger all types of strokes.
A British study published in the Journal of Mind-Body Research also showed that small tempers such as frequent depression, small anxiety and small stress can also damage people's health, mainly increasing the risk of cardiovascular and arthritis and lung disease.
The study also found that the correlation between this small temper and the disease showed a dose-response pattern, that is, the larger the temper, the higher the risk. Even mild depression and bad mood in life can increase the risk of chronic disease.
It can be seen that the relationship between emotions and health is extremely close, and the good and bad emotions have the effect of affecting the whole body.
Why do tantrums hurt the heart? Stress-related neurological activity increases the risk
So, why do emotions affect people's health? The study mentioned at the beginning of the article included a total of 299 patients with coronary heart disease, assessed their stress-related neural activity, and assessed coronary artery inflammation and plaque characteristics. Studies have found that the link between stress-related increased neuroactivity and cardiovascular events may involve multiorgan pathway mediation, starting with increased neuroactivity and associated with increased leukopoiesis, coronary artery inflammation, and vulnerable plaques.
By upregulating bone marrow leukopoiesis, promoting coronary inflammation, increasing plaque vulnerability, and increased stress-related neural activity, it was associated with major adverse cardiovascular events. Stress-related neural activity has been found to be significantly associated with bone marrow activity (leukopoiesis) and coronary artery inflammation.
Patients with higher levels of stress-related neuroactivity are more likely to have vulnerable plaques and significantly higher rates of major adverse cardiovascular events. Stress-related neural activity increases the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events by 2-fold.
After correcting for traditional cardiovascular risk factors and plaque load, bone marrow activity was an important mediator of the relationship between amygdala activity and coronary inflammation, accounting for 19% of the total impact.
Coronary inflammation not only mediates the relationship between stress-related neural activity levels and high-risk plaques, but also mediates stress-related neural activity and cardiovascular events.
The amygdala is an important part of the brain's highlighting network involved in cognition and mood. Highlight networks are the brain's own mediators, constantly monitoring the outside world and determining how other brain networks respond to stimuli. Previous studies have found that the amygdala is associated with cardiovascular events.
How to maintain a good mood? Be confident, always grateful, and compassionate
Long-lived old people have a common characteristic, that is, they are cheerful, optimistic and open-minded, which makes sense. Many people have extraordinary ups and downs in life, but they all live a long life, because the open-minded personality has been honed, which is especially important for health.
The US website "Daily Health" has summarized 7 reasons why people need to stay calm. In addition to easily increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke, there are: First, weaken the immune system function. Scientists at Harvard University in the United States have found that healthy people just recall the past experience of anger will cause the body antibody immunoglobulin A levels to decline, and they are the first line of defense for cells against infection. The second is to aggravate anxiety. Studies have shown that anger can worsen symptoms of generalized anxiety. The third is to cause depression. Multiple studies have shown that depression is associated with aggressive behavior and anger, especially in men. The advice of psychiatrists is that busy days, such as golfing and cycling, enrich the mind so that there is less room to think about chores. The fourth is to hurt the lungs. A follow-up study by Harvard scientists found that angry people have significantly reduced lung capacity, increasing their risk of respiratory diseases. Researchers believe that anger causes increased secretion of stress hormones, causing inflammation of the airways. Fifth, it is easy to fold life. A 17-year follow-up survey by researchers at the University of Michigan found that couples with good relationships lived longer than couples who quarreled frequently.
Lin Shuguang and Tan Ning of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital published a review article pointing out that the heart is not a "mechanical pump" that automatically paces and beats, and specific personality, bad mood, depression, anxiety and other mental diseases and negative life events are clearly related to cardiovascular disease. Positive psychology, including happiness, gratitude, compassion, self-confidence and hope, has a preventive effect on cardiovascular disease.
The health-promoting effects of positive psychology may work in three ways: better metabolic levels, such as better blood lipid levels, lower blood pressure, better glucose metabolism, and lower rates of metabolic syndrome in mentally healthy people; promoting healthy behaviors, such as improving sleep quality, increasing physical activity and quitting smoking; Stress relief through social means, etc.
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