Stress is a part and parcel of the life of a modern woman. In these days you experience stress everywhere. At workplace you experience high levels of stress to keep up your performance, at home the additional responsibility of looking after the family and raising the children bring an enormous amount of stress to the life of a modern woman.
We hear all the bad things that stress can do to you. It increases the risk of ulcers, and increases the risk of heart attack. Stress is bad for you, and it can make you exhausted. But now scientists say that there is at least one good side to daily stress in women's life.
They say that daily stress decreases the risk of developing breast cancer in women. They found that, higher the day-to-day stress level, lower is the risk of developing breast cancer. This information is published in the recent issue of British Medical Journal.
Researchers from Denmark studied 6,689 women over a period of 18 years to come to this conclusion. They speculate that stress might decrease the production of estrogen, which is a risk factor in breast cancer. However they caution that this is an unproven theory, which needs further investigation.
It is to be noted that this study findings contradicts two previous studies from Finland and Sweden, the former found no link between daily stress and breast cancer while the latter found a direct association with higher risk.
Researchers said that part of the reason for the apparent discrepancy might be that the current study only looked at first-time incidence of breast cancer while the previous studies looked at all cases. |
