The study suggests that the ideal cardioprotective job is a well esteemed job at a certain responsibility level with good conditions for social interaction during working hours, in which the experienced job demands are reasonable, and where extra resources are available if needed. The purpose of this study was to analyze the cardiovascular effects induced by mental stress evoked by different stressors in patients with recent uncomplicated myocardial infarction. 22 days after uncomplicated myocardial infarction in the absence of specific cardiovascular drugs. Mental arithmetic was more powerful in inducing hemodynamic effects than either the Sacks test or the Raven matrices. Thus, experimentally induced mental stress challenges the recently infarcted patient's cardiovascular system to a quantifiable extent, causing important increments in left ventricular filling pressure.
Hemodynamic response is different depending on the stressor employed.
Twenty-five per cent of these patients reported memory difficulties originating during the year following admission to hospital. Further analysis revealed that stress was related to memory problems primarily because stressed patients were more likely to use psychotropic drugs. The effects of 20th-century stress on the cardiovascular system are reviewed and correlated with experimental animal models. A classic example of such stress is drawn from a study of the aerospace workers at Cape Kennedy who were shown to be exposed to excessive occupational stress. Surprisingly, the usual risk factors did not predict a greater risk, yet the population exhibited a higher incidence of sudden cardiac death and acute myocardial infarction.