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This paper takes a look at the effects of stress on hospital patients and residents of nursing homes and attempts to focus on the single condition of heart attach or heart disease. The paper discusses sources of stress such as hospital specific stressors and looks at how anxiety as a by-product relates into this topic as well.

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"The purpose of this brief review of literature is to examine the effects of stress upon two discrete populations of patients - hospitalized patients and nursing home patients. Various studies revealed in the literature suggest that both groups of patients are vulnerable to the effects of stress particularly when an individual patient is also suffering from a medical condition of some severity. Efforts to narrow the review of literature to a single condition heart attack or heart disease revealed limited research on this topic."

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