Stress, Catecholamines, and Cardiovascular Disease

by David S. Goldstein

Stress is an integral part of life. But what is it, how does it affect the body, and what roles do stress and catecholamines play in acute and chronic manifestations of cardiovascular diseases? This book provides a comprehensive, science-based analysis of these issues. Scientific medicine attempts to explain diseases in terms of theories that observation or experimentation can test. The starting point for understanding the roles of stress and catecholamines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195065387
• ISBN13: 9780195065381
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive scientific discussion.

This is a comprehensive, science-based discussion of how stress, via catecholamines such as adrenaline and noradrenaline, can lead to cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure, heart attacks, and sudden death. The author expends great effort in attempting to separate facts, theories, and unfounded assumptions in this highly controversial area. This is a resource for academicians. Lay people probably would not understand the medicalese.