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Stress and high blood pressure: What's the connection?
Linking stress and blood pressure challenging
High blood pressure risks increase over the long term
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Your reaction to stress may affect your blood pressure
Stress-reducing activities can lower your blood pressure
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Stressful situations can cause your blood pressure to spike temporarily, but can stress also cause long-term high blood pressure? Could all those short-term stress-related blood pressure spikes add up and cause high blood pressure in the long term? Researchers aren't sure.
However, exercising three to five times a week for 30 minutes can reduce your stress level. And if you have high blood pressure, doing activities that can help manage your stress and improve your health can make a long-term difference in lowering your blood pressure.
