20 Things You Didn’t Know About... Stress

How a broken heart can really break your heart, violent games can ease your stress, and the lowest-stress job around.

By Rebecca Coffey
Jul 27, 2011 12:00 AMMay 21, 2019 7:17 PM

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 Think about money, work, economic outlook, family, and relationships. Feeling anxious? In a 2010 American Psychological Association survey [pdf], those five factors were the most often cited sources of stress for Americans.

illustration by Jonathon Rosen

 Stress is strongly tied to cardiac disease, hypertension, inflammatory diseases, and compromised immune systems, and possibly to cancer.

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