Psychosocial factors risk of cardiovascular diseases (review of the literature)

Studying the psychosocial components of the public health represents one of the most challenging and complicated problems in epidemiology. Psychosocial components refer to the key aspects of living, working conditions, and life style. The psychosocial risk factors can be divided into two main categories: chronic stressors (socioeconomic status) and emotional factors (anxiety, depression, exhaustion, and social hostility) leading, as a consequence, to sleep disorders. Chronic stress results in psychosomatic diseases including arterial hypertension, myocardial infarction, and stroke. The present review analyzes the associations between the psychosocial factors and relative risk (RR) of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and provides evidence that RR in patients with mood disorders is comparable with еру traditional CVD risk factors.