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Learn to Handle Stress to Avoid High Blood Pressure

  • June 22, 2004

Young adults who are able to stay calm under stress may be less likely to develop high blood pressure as they age. In general, those who had larger blood-pressure responses to stressful situations like playing a video game or having their hand submerged in ice water had a greater risk for developing high blood pressure, and the greater their response, the sooner they developed high blood pressure. High blood pressure eventually affects up to 90 percent of Americans as they become elderly...