Study Supports Theory that Stress Elevates Blood Pressure
December 15th, 2009 admin
If you’ve ever been under an extreme amount of stress and wonder if your blood pressure is affected by it, you can stop wondering because it does. In a recent study , mice were put under stressful conditions and their blood pressure increased. When the study was done on African American men, it was found that there is a gene that increases blood pressure when asked to do stressful activities. This means that not all people may respond to stress by high blood pressure, but there is a population in which this is the case and it means that they can be treated specifically for this type of high blood pressure . What To Do if Stress Elevates Your Blood Pressure If you know that stress elevates your blood pressure, it’s important that you take steps to decrease …

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