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Written By: Editorial Team | Updated : October 8, 2014 11:06 AM IST
Do find time to talk to your wife even if you come home tired from office and want to hit the sack - for a better heart health. According to new research, positive interactions with your partner can lower the risk of heart attack or stroke for you. 'More negative interactions between partners were linked to having thicker carotid arteries - the blood vessels that carry blood through the neck to the brain,' Nataria Joseph from VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System in California was quoted as saying. (Read: Heart attack symptoms everyone should know)
Thicker carotids are linked with increased risk of cardiovascular problems. In the study, researchers found that people who reported few positive interactions with their partners had an 8.5 percent higher risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the future. For the study, researchers analysed 281 middle-age adults who were married or living with partners in marriage-like relationships. They found that interactions may be closely tied to emotions, health behaviours and physiology, all of which have effects on health. 'The study, however, shows a correlation but not a cause-and-effect relationship between interactions and thicker carotid arteries,' Joseph said in a Live Science report. (Read: Beware angry outbursts could actually give you a heart attack!)
What happen during heart attack?
The number of people who suffer from heart disease is constantly on the rise. Many die due to heart attacks and doctors tirelessly tell you about the classic symptoms of the condition. But do you know what exactly happens inside your body and to your heart during a heart attack? Well, here is a look at a heart attack from your body's perspective.
1. Most heart attacks happen because of a blockage in the blood vessels that supply the muscles of the heart. This blockage happens because of plaque (a sticky substance that is made of fats, cholesterol and white blood cells) buildup on the arterial walls of the heart. Want to control your cholesterol levels? Here is how you can do it.
2. When this plaque gets disturbed it breaks up into a number of tiny pieces that then go and lodge themselves in various places.
3. Thinking that there is a threat to your blood vessel, your red blood cells and white blood cells go an attach themselves to the plaque (just like the would in the case of a wound). While this is a repair mechanism, these cells end up blocking the blood vessel.
4. Once blocked the blood flowing through the heart stops and can no more reach the other parts of the heart muscle. Because of lack of oxygen those parts of the heart muscle start to die. Read more about 10 things that happen during a heart attack
With inputs from IANS
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