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Understanding and Preventing Cardiovascular Disease | Prakriti Gaba MD

The Neuro Experience

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The Effects of Stress on the Heart

There's actually several theories out there. So I'll just refer to the heart because I know that the best. But there you can have what's called plaque rupture. And so if they rupture, that elicits this whole cascade or series of events in the blood vessels That cause your plate lits to sort of come and aggregate there. It will happen is that small area through which blood was able to pass through then gets fully blocked. This causes a big heart attack or death if, you know, it's applying a big area of the heart.

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