The Link between Childhood Trauma and Heart Disease
Early life stress (ELS) can overwhelm an individual’s capacity to adapt to a stressor, thus leading to harmful effects on the cardiovascular system in adulthood. Cohort studies have demonstrated a strong link between ELS experiences and cardiovascular disease. Toxic stress defined as “the excessive or prolonged activation of physiologic stress response systems in the absence …
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