Are Stress Effects on Blood Pressure
detrimental to our health?

Do you often wonder about the stress effects on blood pressure levels as we hear or experience crime, health problems, financial setbacks and the likes, on a daily basis?

Are you "stressed out"? Are you suffering from high blood pressure?

If you have both these symptoms together, they could be related.

High blood pressure is on the rise in America, the UK, and other locations around the globe, but there seems to be more emphasis on diet as the culprit than other equally important contributing factors such as high blood pressure related stress.

We are being told to watch our salt intake; eat less saturated fats; check for hydrogenated oils; and the list goes on and on. Focusing too much on what we eat will only cause us to worry and get “stressed out" on top of all the other daily troubles that plague us, is it not? What do you think? Can excess stress cause high blood pressure? If so, what impact does stress effects on blood pressure have, and is it detrimental to our health?

A recent study about stress and hypertension revealed the effects of September 11 on not only the victim`s families, but also on people living in other parts of the world. It demonstrated that stress and trauma can have a serious affect on blood pressure, and are we not living in stressful and traumatizing times?

This concept of high blood pressure related stress isn’t new. We have been hearing about how bad stress effects on blood pressure, or other vital bodily functions, can have for as long as I can remember. Take for instance, in 1958, two-thirds of the deer population died on James Island in Chesapeake Bay over a two year period. You may be wondering what deer have to do with stress and high blood pressure.

In the Doomsday Book, British ecologist Gordon Taylor said that the adrenal glands of the deer were much enlarged, and the cell structure confirmed the idea that their deaths were stress related. He further explained that the adrenals become enlarged in response to continued stressful conditions, and predicted a similar situation for humans as they become more pressurized from overpopulated conditions, and isn’t it just so? The stress effects on blood pressure are beginning to show on a scale of epidemic proportions, and that is no exaggeration. There are blood pressure screenings available everywhere.

Current research reflects similar findings that not only does adrenalin and corticosterone increase with repeated stress, causing high blood pressure and enlarged adrenalin glands, but can also lead to heart disease, stroke and other diseases. Patients who have suffered heart attacks have been recorded as having worked more hours, and experienced more home and financial stress.

Not only can stress effects on blood pressure be accounted for causing some heart conditions, but other diseases sometimes can also be traced back to stress, as Psychiatrist, Dr. Eberhard H. Uhlenhuth, at the university of Chicago revealed in a health forum lecture. He made it clear that growing evidence indicated stress as a major player in the cause of most of man’s illnesses, from the common cold to heart attacks. He said “While there are other factors involved in causing illness, it is quite clear that stress plays a triggering role”.

We need to “take to heart” the evidence that stress effects on blood pressure levels can trigger major problems.

Stess Management for Health.com is an interesting website that gives a wide range of illnesses that stress can trigger or aggravate, including cardiovascular problems.

Does the future hold out for us a better, stress free world? Or are we doomed to ever failing, over crowded, under funded, health care systems?

The historic record breeds in us a lack of confidence that things could really change. We seem to be loosing that burning zeal to keep trying, and present day statistics only put the dampeners on that already smouldering wick.

Adding to that, we have prophetic evidence in the most ancient of books, the Holy Bible. Did not Divine providence tell us that we would experience "critical times, hard to deal with”? This must inevitably heighten the stress effects on blood pressure. (2 Timothy 3:1) Until Divine intervention obliterates all problems causing stress and worry, it would be wise then at present, to take a measure of control over our own lives.

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