One of Australia’s leading cardiology researchers says the complex effects of coronavirus lockdowns will likely lead to more deaths from cardiovascular disease.
who suggested “post-pandemic stress disorder” could result in a 4.5 per cent rise in cardiovascular cases in the UK, with those aged between 30 and 45 most at risk.Mark Rayner, a former senior National Health Service psychological therapist, said everyone had heard of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, but “we really urgently need to get our heads around PPSD”.
“As well as the condition itself with all its immediate problems, one of the biggest collateral issues is the affect it can have on heart health. It is widely recognised that reducing stress and mental health problems is crucial to the prevention and recovery of cardiovascular events such as heart attacks and strokes.
“We know that people with cardiac disorders have more depression, we know cardiac disorders create depression, but we also have some quite good data that suggest persons who are depressed over the years, independent of a whole lot of other factors, are more likely to develop heart disease,” said Prof Hare, who published a recent paper in the journaloutlining the relationship between cardiovascular disease and depression.
“Then in addition there are ways things have affected people’s businesses, jobs that have been lost, small businesses that have been lost – there are a whole lot of sociological sequelae, as well as emotional sequelae. During the study period, there were 487 non-fatal and 83 fatal cardiovascular events such as heart disease, heart attack and stroke.
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