Kim Westerman, MFA, EdD, is a travel and wellness writer, coffee expert and longtime university writing teacher based in Berkeley, California
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Stress and Your Heart
When the weight of the world becomes a cardiovascular crisis
Health & Well-being
			
					You eat oatmeal for breakfast and salad with lean protein for dinner. You exercise almost every day and care for your heart health in every way you know how. Perhaps you even meditate. But if you have high stress — and who doesn’t? — you are still at risk of heart attack and other cardiovascular problems, many of which fly under the radar of routine preventive screening.
Published November 3, 2025