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High Resting Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Linked to Later Mental Health Disorders

  • November 01, 2016

A new study is showing that a high resting heart rate and blood pressure in youth predict an increased susceptibility for anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder later in life, according to a news release from the University of Helsinki (Finland). The results indicate that men whose resting heart rate was higher than 82 beats per minute during their youth were 69 percent more likely to later be diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder than men whose resting...