Teenagers with high blood pressure appear to have better psychological adjustment and enjoy higher quality of life than those with normal blood pressure, suggests a study in the May issue ofPsychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine, the official journal of the American Psychosomatic Society. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
“This is the first report linking elevated blood pressure to quality of life and psychosocial adaptation in a large epidemiological study of adolescents,” according to the report by Dr Angela Berendes of University of Göttingen, Germany, and colleagues. The authors speculate on some possible reasons for their surprising results—including “repressed emotions” or even a “stress-dampening effect” of high blood pressure (hypertension).
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