Stressful deadlines boost heart attack risk - Yahoo! UK & Ireland News

Stressful deadlines boost heart attack risk - Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
It's been known for some time that "stressful" lives lead to increased risks of heart attacks but it tends to be a factor doctors pretty much ignore preferring to deal only with "hard data" such as blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
Here is another study showing us that the specific stress of a deadline can increase the risk of a heart attack the following day by SIX times! Also it shows that a very competitive environment at work can double the ongoing risk of a heart attack.
It is sad that our dominant view of health reduces people to machines which can be tweaked with the right medicines. Remember the "polypill"? The suggestion there was that a pill with BP lowering and lipid lowering and anti-clotting effects would significantly reduce heart attacks. Well, what about dealing with the kinds of lives we expect people to lead?