Acute and chronic psychological stress as risk factors for cardiovascular disease: Insights gained from epidemiological, clinical and experimental studies

HM Lagraauw, J Kuiper, I Bot - Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2015 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a leading cause of death worldwide and
identification and therapeutic modulation of all its risk factors is necessary to ensure a lower …

Anxiety and depressive symptoms are associated with higher carotid intima-media thickness. Cross-sectional analysis from ELSA-Brasil baseline data

IS Santos, AC Goulart, AR Brunoni, AH Kemp… - Atherosclerosis, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Studies focusing on the association between anxiety/depressive symptoms and
accelerated subclinical atherosclerosis have yielded mixed results. Our aim is to examine …

[PDF][PDF] Stress-induced modulation of the innate immune system in cardiovascular disease

HM Lagraauw - Biopharmacy division, Leiden …, 2015 - scholarlypublications …
Atherosclerosis is the underlying pathology responsible for most cardiovascular disease
(CVD)-related deaths and as such a leading cause of death worldwide. This chronic, lipid …