Doctors have long known that chronic stress leads to cardiovascular disease, but have not understood the mechanism.
Last weekend, scientists said that they may have unravelled how chronic stress leads to heart attack and stroke – by triggering overproduction of disease-fighting white blood cells which can be harmful in excess.
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