While stress doesn't directly cause heart attacks, it can cause symptoms, such as high blood pressure, that lead to heart ...

Heart health depends on more than diet alone. Sedentary lifestyle, poor sleep, chronic stress, social isolation, lack of ...

This article originally appeared on TIME. Stress might seem like an unavoidable reality of modern life, but your body isn’t as quick to write it off as such: in fact, being stressed takes a ...

I was 8 years old when the wrecking ball of doom came a-swinging. One minute I was riding my Huffy Sweet Thunder down the road, speed lifting my pigtails, adrenaline twisting the handlebars as I ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I've heard that all the stress of the holidays can lead to a heart attack. What's the link, and what can I do to reduce my risk? ANSWER: It's easy to get caught up in the stress and ...

Folks with genetically-driven stress are more likely to suffer heart attacks after nerve-wracking events or times of unrest, a new study shows. People with above-average genetic scores linked to ...