During a man’s forties heart problems, both real and imaginary, start taking shape. A large number of men will have all the symptoms of something wrong and have a check-up only to find nothing is.
However, heart disease does account for a high percentage of deaths in the forty-plus age group.
In Britain it has been estimated that one man in four will have coronary disease before he is sixty and one man in ten will die from it. Fortunately it has also been calculated that at least fifty per cent of men who go to their doctors complaining of heart pains have, in reality, chest pains caused not by heart disease but by stress and anxiety — so there could be good news waiting not just bad.
(Stress is today regarded a major factor in the cause of heart disease. However it is being suggested that doctors may have over-emphasized its effects as stress produces its own additional subconscious hypochondria and manifests itself, in particular, in all the symptoms of heart disease in an otherwise healthy heart.)
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