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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ATLANTA – Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine are examining the relationship between stress and cardiovascular disease as part of an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Led by cardiologist David Sheps, MD, professor, Emory University School of Medicine, the five-year study is investigating mental stress-induced ischemia, a lack of blood flow to the heart triggered by psychological stress.
Sheps and his Emory colleagues, cardiologist Arshed Quyyumi, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Emory Cardiovascular Research Institute, and Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, are conducting three related studies involving up to 650 male and female patients with stable coronary heart disease between the ages of 30 and 82.
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