Sunday, November 22, 2009

What Is The Connection Between High Blood Pressure And Depression?

By Christian Goodman

A customer jokingly asked me If there could possible be a link between hypertension and depression? In a high blood pressure program

Both ideas have been studied; hypertension leading to depression as well as depression leading to high blood pressure. Research does reflect a link between the two.

As the result of Depression as the Primary and Hypertenstion. People suffering from chronic depression or other anxiety are up to three times more likely to also develop high blood pressure.

What makes things worse is that people who have depression are more likely to over eat, smoke and drink too much. And they're less likely to seek treatment for high blood pressure.

However, surprisingly, even the people involved in the study who did not engage in poor eating habits, smoking etc. also suffered from high blood pressure.

change in hormones due to anxiety and depression can be a huge factor in causing high blood pressure. This has been confirmed by researchers after studies.

Medications taken for depression may also result in high blood pressure.

We can therefore definitely conclude there is a link between high blood pressure and depression.

We can look at hypertension as the initial issue.

You'll see that one of the side effects most of them have is DEPRESSION. That's the main reason why high blood pressure caused depression.

This demonstrates how trying to solve one problem - in a wrong way - can cause endless problems in other areas.

And although the person who asked about depression was half joking, there is not doubt anxiety that goes along with knowing the hypertensive condition exists.

Stress is also a least contributor of hypertension and depression.

Practices that can help high blood pressure regardless of the cause:

Basically don't drink to excess when you see a rise in blood pressure after a drink.

Stop Smoking. It can create many problems including blood pressure.

Eat vegetables and fruits. It should be first on your list.

I have created several natural health guides. Including my natural blood pressure exercise program and weight loss breeze - which uses simple exercises to increase the oxygen level in the body and improve metabolism.

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