Stress And High Blood Pressure, What's The Relationship?

Illustration of stress and high blood pressure (Freepic/Drazen Zigic)

YOGYAKARTA After experiencing life pressure, it can cause blood pressure to spike for a moment. But researchers explore whether stress can also cause the same effect on blood pressure.

For people with high blood pressure, it is recommended to exercise 3-5 times a week for 30 minutes with the aim of reducing stress and helping lower blood pressure. It is important to know, the body releases hormone waves when it is stressed. These hormones cause the heart to beat faster and the blood vessels narrow. Because of this mechanism, blood pressure increases for a while.

Evidence that stress itself causes high blood pressure in the long term is not found, reported by the Mayo Clinic, Thursday, July 13. But reacting to stress in an unhealthy way can increase blood pressure and increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. The adverse behavior associated with high blood pressure, including drinking too much caffeine and alcohol, eating unhealthy foods, eating too much, and not moving enough.

Heart disease, may also be related to certain health conditions that trigger stress. Among them include anxiety, depression, and decoupling from friends or family. However, there is no evidence that this condition is directly related to high blood pressure. But the hormones the body produces when under emotional pressure can potentially damage the arteries.

Arterial damage can cause heart disease. While symptoms of depression and anxiety can cause some people to forget to take medication to control high blood pressure or other heart conditions.

Stress can cause a sharp increase in blood pressure. But when stress is lost, blood pressure returns as before stress. However, a brief spike in blood pressure can cause a heart attack or stroke and can also damage blood vessels, heart, and kidneys over time. The damage is like damage due to long-term high blood pressure.

Although people with high stress and high blood pressure will generally see blood pressure drop after stress is under control, managing stress may not lower blood pressure on everyone. But managing stress can help improve health in other ways. Studying how to manage stress can lead to healthy behavioral changes, including those that lower blood pressure.

How to manage stress that can be done, among others, by prioritizing priorities so as not to be formulated, doing breathing exercises to relax, exercise regularly, yoga and meditation, and getting enough sleep.