Hair Provides Proof of Link Between Chronic Stress and Heart Attack

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Jacob
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Hair Provides Proof of Link Between Chronic Stress and Heart Attack

Post by Jacob » Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:37 pm

http://www.worldhealth.net/news/hair-pr ... stress-an/
The stress hormone cortisol is traditionally measured in serum, saliva, and urine, but it is also captured in the hair shaft. Gideon Koren, from The University of Western Ontario (Canada), and colleagues collected hair samples, 3 centimeters long, from 56 adult men who suffered a recent heart attack. As compared to age-matched healthy counterparts, the team found higher hair cortisol levels corresponding to the previous three months in the heart attack patients. After correcting for confounding variables, the researchers found that hair cortisol content emerged as the strongest predictor of heart attack, concluding that: “This suggests that chronic stress, as assessed by increased hair cortisol in the 3 months prior to the event, may be a contributing factor for [acute myocardial infarction].”

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Re: Hair Provides Proof of Link Between Chronic Stress and Heart Attack

Post by Pete2 » Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:09 pm

bingo!

It explains the link with heart problems and hairloss too :)

Its more our stress response - ive looked into it there are lots of techniques to help

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