Psychosocial Risk Factors
摘要
This chapter explores psychosocial risk factors and their association with cardiovascular disease. Both social risk factors and psychological risk factors will be considered. Social risk factors include adverse childhood experiences and issues related to socioeconomic status, employment, healthcare access, community, racism, intimate partner violence, and incarceration. Allostatic load helps to explain the link between these stressors and the cardiovascular sequelae. Psychological risk factors include mental illness. Psychiatric medications present their own unique risk factors which will be discussed.