Psychological Stress Associated With Chest Pain in People With Heart Disease

Study links brain’s reactivity to stress, an important consideration for angina treatment, say researchers

Angina is a chest pain that arises from insufficient blood flow to the heart and appears to be linked to stress. fizkes/Shutterstock

Psychological stress found in the inferior frontal lobe of the brain could have an association with chest pain in people with heart disease, according to research released in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging.

The study was designed to examine how activity in the inferior frontal lobe of the brain affects the severity of angina.