If a person has high blood pressure, the risk of cardiovascular disease increases, since their blood puts too much pressure on the arteries. It is common to want to correct this hypertension through changes in the diet, such as reducing salt intake, drinking decaffeinated coffee or reducing the consumption of red meat. Although for the vast majority of those who suffer from high blood pressure, the solution is to end up taking a daily pill.
Nosebleeds, confusion and headaches are the most common symptoms of hypertension
Among the most common symptoms of hypertension are nosebleeds, confusion, and headaches. Although beyond the physical symptoms, psychological symptoms may also appear, although they are not usually taken into account. Now, high blood pressure has been shown to be linked to depressive symptoms and mental health disorders such as anxiety and neuroticism.
A group of Experts from the Genetics Collaborative Innovation Center of Genetics and Development Collaborative Innovation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University has launched research addressing genetic causal relationships between blood pressure and anxiety, as well as symptoms depressive factors such as subjective well-being and neuroticism.
It also accelerates bone aging
The results of this study were clear, indicating that blood pressure is related to neuroticism, but not anxiety or depression. The origin of the depressive and anxious states of a patient with hypertension are caused precisely by the neurotic personality.
Likewise, Dr. Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University in the United States, Elizabeth Maria Hennen, has led a study that has shown that hypertension could accelerate bone aging. To do this, the researchers induced high blood pressure in young mice, which responded with osteoporosis-related bone loss and damage that could be compared to that of older mice.