Health Matters: How intimate partner violence increases the risk of heart disease
How does violence against women actually impact the heart?
“There’s many different avenues but the predominant avenue is through chronic stress and we know that chronic stress and there’s been a lot of research on chronic stress for years but I think trauma and intimate partner violence is relatively new in the literature but chronic stress leads to inflammation changes in heart rate and blood pressure and all sorts of changes in the cardiovascular system that put us at higher risk of heart disease long term.” – Dr. Tara Sedlak
