{"id":1972,"date":"2024-04-08T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T16:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2024-04-21T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T10:08:36","slug":"positive-psychological-well-reduce-risk-cardiovascular-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/blog\/positive-psychological-well-reduce-risk-cardiovascular-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study: Positive psychological well-being appears to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Check out the article published in Science Daily, titled&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/04\/120417163029.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cPositive Feelings May Help Protect Cardiovascular Health\u201c<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From that article: A large review of scientific studies, published in Psychological Bulletin by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, revealed that positive psychological well-being appears to reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events. \u201cThe absence of the negative is not the same thing as the presence of the positive. We found that factors such as optimism, life satisfaction, and happiness are associated with reduced risk of CVD [cardiovascular disease] regardless of such factors as a person\u2019s age, socioeconomic status, smoking status, or body weight\u2026 For example, the most optimistic individuals had an approximately 50% reduced risk of experiencing an initial cardiovascular event compared to their less optimistic peers\u201d said lead author Julia Boehm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credit:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/divyashivaram\/8839823616\/in\/photolist-et9pA1-nfN7P2-72LiW7-jsLLb2-wDJRM-jvjZKm-eQgqXg-5qw9qR-aDqCUS-4rFo53-bFd9Xu-netf2V-83WLq5-jtBen8-otWfxg-9eLbD2-aU1qQR-9gog9m-6P1dZS-6VAYSc-4JJqEG-bWiUKh-h6ikTD-5M2chd-f6v1aM-jtBU4C-dpGioY-m4ayWj-dkXfV1-jsN6AR-mCGr18-fs4Pr8-eVHJZD-9chpnK-5pZHtE-jrGgCJ-nH7NP5-75nxep-jtzP4x-6oXw2-mCYeJ-juTyBT-kZgdt6-dLCT7J-juS8Ci-juTqEk-jtftUE-jtekiG-4zGQ5m-juTDtM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Divya Shivaram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the article published in Science Daily, titled&nbsp;\u201cPositive Feelings May Help Protect Cardiovascular Health\u201c. From that article: A large review of scientific studies, published in Psychological Bulletin by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, revealed that positive psychological well-being appears to reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":20,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zestologi-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}