Stressful: The most common cause of coronary heart disease - Walla! health

2022-01-16T08:11:49.384Z

There is no one who has not experienced stress in the last two years of the corona plague. But it turns out that stress not only harms us mentally, but also increases our risk of getting corona. why is it happening?

Stressful: The most common cause of coronary heart disease

There is no one who has not experienced stress in the last two years of the corona plague.

Now it turns out that stress not only harms us mentally, but also increases our risk of getting into corona.

why is it happening?

Walla!

health

16/01/2022

Sunday, 16 January 2022, 08:54 Updated: 10:06

Share on Facebook
Share on WhatsApp
Share on Twitter
Share on Email
Share on general
Comments
Comments

In the video: Corona Projector, Prof. Salman Zarka in a media briefing (Photo: GPO)

Needless to say, the last two years have included a lot of emotions, including fear, uncertainty and of course a lot of stress.

If all that was not enough, now a new study shows that people who feel high levels of stress are more likely to be infected with the corona virus.

Scientists at the University of Nottingham in England say people who felt stressed, anxious or depressed at the start of the plague in 2020 were at higher risk of contracting corona during that year.

Their study found that greater psychological distress during the first days of the epidemic significantly increased the chances of contracting it later.

These people also had a greater number of symptoms, as well as more severe symptoms.

Are diarrhea a sign that you have been infected with Omicron?

To the full article

It's no secret that stress can weaken the immune system, and in fact stress has long since become one of the factors that most harms our physical and mental health.

Add to that long months of social isolation, small children in the home, uncertainty, financial distress and real fear - and you have a graph of stress in its rise.

Too much stress from all sorts of places.

Woman massages the back of the head (Photo: ShutterStock)

To get a better idea of how much excess stress increases vulnerability to corona, the researchers put together an observational study that included close to 1,100 people.

Each subject completed a health survey in April 2020 and reported COVID-19 infection or symptoms by December 2020. Subsequently, the team analyzed the data, taking into account various demographic and occupational factors.

Eventually, corona infections and symptoms were more frequent among people who experienced increased psychological distress in April 2020.

More on Walla!

This food will lower your stress and anxiety levels easily
This is the population that the corona harms mentally in the most severe way
More money in the account: Where is the most profitable to open a savings plan?

"Our data show that increased stress, anxiety and depression are not only consequences of living with the epidemic, but may also be factors that increase our risk of developing corona," says lead researcher Professor Cavita Vedhara of Nottingham School of Medicine, "further work is now needed to determine "How and how public health policy needs to change to accommodate the fact that it seems that the people in the greatest distress in our communities are also at the greatest risk of being infected in Corona."