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Mental Health Mental Health Basics
Decreasing Stress Can Help Lower Blood Pressure
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While stress can influence blood pressure levels, there are ways to minimize the impact with simple lifestyle changes.
Medically Reviewed On: July 21, 2009
Webcast Transcript
Patient: “I’d like to know how stress and blood pressure relate”
Dr. Dan: All of us experience some stress in our daily lives. It can temporarily raise your blood pressure or increase it if you already have hypertension. But far less is known about whether stress can actually be a cause of high blood pressure. One study that looked at this examined men who had a job with a lot of responsibility but little control, a situation that can cause chronic stress. On average the men had nea
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