Heart attack danger for mums who live with parents

"Mothers who live with either their or their partner's parents are at a threefold risk of heart disease, research shows. A 14-year study conducted in Japan found that women aged between 40 and 69 were three times as likely to be diagnosed with coronary heart disease if they lived with their children and their parents/parents-in-law. "The stress of fulfilling multiple roles as daughter/daughter-in-law, mother and partner probably has a deleterious effect on heart health," the report authors suggest. "Over the long term, this is likely to boost levels of stress hormones and inflammatory proteins, which in turn may strengthen the effects of other risk factors, such as high blood pressure, or diabetes." None of the participants in the study, published in Heart, had been diagnosed with any serious illness, such as cancer, heart disease, or stroke"