Social Stress Linked To Harmful Fat Deposits, Heart Disease

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 08:28 in Health & Medicine

A new study shows that social stress could be an important precursor to heart disease by causing the body to deposit more fat in the abdominal cavity, speeding the harmful buildup of plaque in blood vessels, a stepping stone to the No. 1 cause of death in the world.

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