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The mind-heart connection in coronary artery disease
1Family Medicine Department, Valle University School of Medicine, Cali, Colombia.
Comprehensive Therapy
|April 14, 1999
Abstract:
Mind and heart are connected by neurocardiologic pathways. Psychosocial risk factors produce sympathetic activation, resulting in mortality in coronary artery disease. Aspirin, exercise, and psychosocial and spiritual supports are important resources in protecting the heart against these risk factors.