Multiple studies have reported a link between mental health and high blood pressure with
mixed or even contradictory findings. Here, we resolve those contradictions and further …

Hypertension is one of the most prevalent vascular risk factors and a leading cause of
disability and mortality worldwide. The negative impact of hypertension on brain health is …

Background We aimed to determine whether depressive, anxiety, stress symptoms were
associated with the risk of elevated blood pressure by performing longitudinal cohort and …

Background Previous work has suggested significant associations between various
psychological symptoms (eg, depression, anxiety, anger, alcohol abuse) and hypertension …

Background Mental illness represents a major global burden of disease worldwide. It has
been hypothesised that individuals with mental illness have greater blood pressure …

Background—A longstanding but controversial hypothesis is that individuals who exhibit
frequent, large increases in blood pressure (BP) during psychological stress are at risk for …

Accumulating evidence from animal models and human studies of essential hypertension
suggest that brain regulation of the vasculature is impacted by the disease. Human …

The notion that psychological states can influence physical health is hardly new, and
perhaps nowhere has the mind-body connection been better studied than in cardiovascular …

Background The evidence linking stress to hypertension has been scarcely documented in
population-based studies. Methods Participants were selected through a multi-stage …

Objective We investigated whether parental history of hypertension (FH+) enhances the
impact of depressed mood, indexed by Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), on ambulatory …