Stress negatively impacts health through multiple biological systems, including hormone regulation, autonomic nervous system, and gene expression, and increases the risk of infectious diseases.

Stress and Health: A Review of Psychobiological Processes.

Stressors significantly impact physical and mental health, leading to inequalities, and coping and support interventions can help individuals cope and address health inequalities.

Stress and Health: Major Findings and Policy Implications

Long-term effects of psychosocial stressors on health are influenced by factors such as nature, number, persistence, individual vulnerability, resources, and coping patterns.

Stress and health: psychological, behavioral, and biological determinants.

Individuals who perceive stress as negatively impacting their health have an increased risk of coronary heart disease compared to those who report no such impact.

Increased risk of coronary heart disease among individuals reporting adverse impact of stress on their health: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study.

Multiple types of stressors independently contribute to poor health outcomes, with social support not buffering the effects of stress.

How Multiple Types of Stressors Impact on Health

Life stress contributes to the development, maintenance, or exacerbation of various mental and physical health conditions, and may accelerate biological aging and premature mortality.

Life Stress and Health

Stressors impact health, but coping and social support can help mitigate negative consequences.

Stress and health

High levels of stress and the perception that stress impacts health are both associated with poor health and mental health, with individuals who perceive stress as impacting their health having an increased risk of premature death.

Does the perception that stress affects health matter? The association with health and mortality.

Psychological stress negatively affects immune system function, potentially contributing to neuropsychiatric conditions through oxidative stress mechanisms.

Oxidative stress: a potential link between emotional wellbeing and immune response.

Daily stress is linked to health problems and mood disturbances, with individuals with low psychosocial resources being more vulnerable to illness and mood disturbances when stress levels increase.

The impact of daily stress on health and mood: psychological and social resources as mediators.

Mind-body medicine research, along with healthy nutrition and lifestyle choices, can significantly impact health maintenance and disease prevention, prolonging human life span.

Mind‐Body Medicine: Stress and Its Impact on Overall Health and Longevity

Chronic stress contributes to various medical conditions and unhealthy behavior patterns, and techniques like meditation can help alleviate it.

Stress and Health Implications

Chronic psychological stress, influenced by life stressors like natural disasters, relationship conflicts, and illness, may negatively impact women's quality of life and health status.

A longitudinal study of the impact of chronic psychological stress on health-related quality of life and clinical biomarkers: protocol for the Australian Healthy Aging of Women Study

Chronic stress negatively impacts mental health and can lead to mood disorders like depression and anxiety.

Stress, a Great Impact on Mental Health

Chronic stress increases the risk of coronary heart disease, and stress management is crucial for preventing and managing cardiovascular disease.

Stress and cardiovascular disease

Chronic exposure to stress hormones throughout the lifespan impacts brain structures involved in cognition and mental health, with specific effects emerging based on the timing and duration of exposure, and interactions between gene effects and environmental adversity.

Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition

Psychological stress accelerates cellular aging, leading to higher oxidative stress, lower telomerase activity, and shorter telomere length in premenopausal women.

From the Cover : Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress

Chronic stress contributes to cardiovascular disease risk, with potential mechanisms and approaches to mitigate its impact.

Disentangling the Links Between Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease

Negative emotions, such as stress, can lead to physiological changes in the immune system, impacting overall health.

Stress-induced immune dysfunction: implications for health

Acute stress and stress hormones impact social cognition and behavior, with future research focusing on understanding the complex interplay of psychological and biological stress variables on health and disorders with social deficits.

The effects of acute stress and stress hormones on social cognition and behavior: Current state of research and future directions

What is the impact of stress on my health?

These studies suggest stress negatively impacts health through biological systems, increases the risk of diseases, and can lead to mental and physical health conditions, while coping and support can mitigate some negative effects.