To say Teresa Gonzalez is busy is an understatement.

A mother of three, Teresa wakes up at 4:45am and commutes for over an hour to be at the office by 7:30. She works as an executive assistant to a globe-trotting partner in an investment firm and holds a second title as a training associate. This is the job that pays the bills, but she’ll fill several more roles before her day is done. She’ll cheer on her 6-year-old daughter at gymnastics class or a dance recital. She’ll then transform into a party planner for her sorority, working with a committee to plan an upcoming event. Teresa will also find time to plan workout routines for the Jazzercise class she teaches twice a week, sort out scheduling and carpooling details for her family’s busy life, and double-check that her 70-year-old mother—who lives with her—ate that day and remembered to turn off the oven. These days, mom sometimes forgets to do these things. Looking after her mother is becoming a bigger job—and a more stressful one.

Stress, it turns out, impacts not just our emotional well-being, but our physical health, too. To find out more about what is burdening women, Northwell and its Katz Institute for Women's Health partnered with NRC Health on a stress survey. The results are eye-opening: 43 percent of tri-state women report that balancing work and their personal lives causes them the most stress right now. In fact, they are significantly more prone to stress compared to men and women nationwide. What seems to tip that balance most? Caring for aging or ailing parents—41 percent rate this as their single greatest stressor.

In addition, respondents anticipate that their stress about elderly relatives’ health will only increase over the next five years.