Researchers and alternative medical experts have identified a long list of dietary and lifestyle factors that work together to promote development of the disease and validate lifestyle modifications that reverse vascular dysfunction and dramatically lower the risk of succumbing to heart disease.

Over the past decade it has become increasingly clear that the biochemical effects of systematic stress dramatically increase the risk of heart disease, and work related stress is a leading source of anxiety and tension that fuel disease progression. A team of scientists have published the result of meta-analysis in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that explains how people with job stress and an unhealthy lifestyle are at higher risk of coronary artery disease than people who have job stress but lead healthy lifestyles.