Associations of Stressful Life Events and Social Strain With Incident Cardiovascular Disease in the Women's Health Initiative [Epidemiology]

Conclusions
Higher SLE and social strain were associated with higher incident CVD independent of sociodemographic factors and depressive symptoms, but not behavioral and biological risk factors.

Source: JAHA:Journal of the American Heart Association - June 27, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Kershaw, K. N., Brenes, G. A., Charles, L. E., Coday, M., Daviglus, M. L., Denburg, N. L., Kroenke, C. H., Safford, M. M., Savla, T., Tindle, H. A., Tinker, L. F., Van Horn, L. Tags: Epidemiology Source Type: research