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Psychological features are increasingly regarded as prospective predictors of cardiovascular disease (CVD) apart from traditional risk variables. When debating the relationship between psychological variables and CVD, the concept of stress is important. "Perceived stress" introduces a global and inclusive stress construct among stress categories and definitions, but it has not been much highlighted yet. Thus, perceived stress was studied and evaluated in the present research with regards to cardiovascular health. Objective: In the current study, an effort was made to study the role of perceived stress among cardiac patients compared to a healthy control group. Method: A sample of 26 adults were selected wherein 13 cardiac patients and 13 healthy adults were present in each group. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect the sample. Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14) by Sheldon Cohen (1983) was used as a research tool to collect the data. Administration, scoring, and interpretation was done as per the test manual. Student�s t-test was used to statistically analyze the data. Result & Conclusion: There was a significant difference found in the level of perceived stress between the two groups, that is, cardiac patients and the healthy control group. The result showed higher perceived stress among healthy adults as compared to cardiac patients. This result will further be discussed in light of previous studies in detail in the research paper.