Severe Physical And Emotional Stress May Cause Catastrophic Tear In Aorta
Intense physical exertion or an extreme emotion, like shoveling snow or anxiety over big gambling losses, can cause a rupture in the main artery leading to and from the heart, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in the American Journal of Cardiology. This damage to the inner wall of the aorta is known as an aortic dissection (ADD), in which a tear in the wall creates two channels. [click link for full article]
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