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you want to start your breathing very rapidly and complain that your heart is jumping around feel in your chest, you may have a panic attack. Such rapid pulse and shortness of breath of a panic attack can feel like a heart attack, heart problems and can be a brewery, a study of more than 3,000 older women shows signal. Consequences of the panic attacks are frightening and can be subjected to random or occur after a person at various events that can trigger the condition.
Based on the study were women who reported at least one full-blown panic attack during a period of six months, three times more likely to have heart attack or stroke within the next 5 years than women who did not report a panic attack. Following adjustment for other risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, inactivity and depression, researchers have also found that emotional and psychological problems caused by the anxiety, hostility and anxiety that were on previous research chracterized of heart problems in connection with, said study co-author Dr . Jordan Smoller of Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital.
“Postmenopausal women who are experiencing panic attacks may be a subgroup with increased risk,” said Smoller. She added that the monitoring of the health status of women after menopause crucial for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Archives of General Psychiatry published Monday, the study was not designed to explain the connection cause, but speculated that may have a panic attack or heart rhythm disorders that stress hormones can be released in case of damage the heart attack.
Susie Rissler, 51, of Terre Haute, Indiana, was not a little surprised by the study. It is a panic attack sufferer since childhood, which has already experienced three mini-strokes. “It feels like the whole world caves in,” said Rissler their panic attacks can include symptoms such as palpitations and chest pain. “I’m trembling, sweating, I read in a ball totally afraid to even look around. Panic attacks can really destroy a person in a lot of different possibilities,” she said.
Smoller been after some of the reported panic symptoms like palpitations, chest pain or shortness of breath, like a panic attack experienced, can cause heart problems in disguise, and can be caused by an undiagnosed heart condition. “One study does not settle a question,” he warned. Smoller said that the number of events seen in this sample was relatively small.
From 1997-2000, wrote the study, 3243 women and followed them for five years. Forty-one in the analysis had a heart attack or death by a heart problem. Another 40 had strokes. According to Dr. JoAnn Manson of Harvard University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is not part of the team, but the weakness of the study the dependence of the women’s memories, rather than medical diagnoses may be, it is likely that the actual results up to a point connection between panic and heart problems.
“It looks very good tie together with what we know about the biology and physiology of stress hormones,” said Manson. “I think it suggests that this is something to discuss with your doctor,” said Manson.