Does anxiety cause high blood pressure? Nobody has ever been able to give one specific cause for blood pressure readings that are consistently too high. Scientists do, however, agree that high anxiety and stress most certainly do not LOWER blood pressure, and repeated and prolonged periods of stress and anxiety can contribute to the development of high blood pressure, or hypertension.
When we become anxious or stressed, our blood pressure rises during that period. Our bodies produce vasoconstricting hormones that increase blood pressure. Once the situation is resolved that caused the anxiety or the stress, blood pressure returns to normal. If the anxiety or stress lasts long enough or happens often enough, most people will develop high blood pressure, or hypertension.
As humans, we become anxious about many different things. Our jobs can cause anxiety, as can our relationships. Learning to control our anxiety levels even in stressful situations can help us to avoid high blood pressure and the risks that go with it. Nobody says that anxiety control is a simple matter.
There are medications that are designed to calm us that a doctor can prescribe. There are also herbs that are known to provide relief from anxiety that a herbalist can recommend. The practice of yoga or meditation exercises might, also, help to relieve anxiety.
The relief of anxiety doesn’t come with a one-size-fits-all fix. I wish it did, but it doesn’t. Each person must find that way to control their anxiety and their stress themselves, and what will work for one person, won’t necessarily work for another.
Anxiety may not directly cause hypertension, but it can lead to repeated blood pressure elevations, which eventually may lead to hypertension. The best advice is to reduce the anxiety-causing situations in your life and to actively seek a way to reduce the anxiety that your feel.
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