A study conducted by the World Heart Federation shows that people with strong emotional ties increase from two to four times its capacity to recover from the disease being treated.

Studies have shown that love has a direct impact on the health of our heart, reducing risk of cardiovascular disease and helping to lengthen, thus, our life expectancy, as he recalled the Spanish Heart Foundation (ESF) on the occasion the celebration of St. Valentine.


Specifically, a study conducted by the World Heart Federation showed that people with strong emotional ties improved two to four times its capacity to recover from the disease being treated.

Dr. Miguel Angel Garcia Fernandez, deputy secretary of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC), states that “there is a clear relationship between our mood and health of our heart. Thus, to prevent cardiovascular disease, and controls the voltage, cholesterol levels, exercising and eating a healthy diet, we favor the presence of positive feelings. ”

By contrast, other research has shown that people with emotional problems have fewer defenses heart. This is the case study “Marital Stress Worsens Prognosis in Women With Coronary Heart Disease ‘, carried out by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and studied 600 women between 30 and 65. As noted by Dr. Garcia Fernandez, “the study was enlightening and surprising, as it showed that women with stressful marriages were three times more likely to suffer a heart attack than women who lived with a good relationship with their partner.” That investigation concluded that the stress in marriage leads to progression of coronary atherosclerosis, with increased instability of atherosclerotic plaques that favor the occurrence of cardiac complications.