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Does anxiety cause high blood pressure and heart distress?

Dr. Addison Carter
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2025-05-22 06:59:30
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Anxiety will not hypertension heart discomfort need to be analyzed according to the specific situation.
If occasional anxiety, sympathetic nerve excitability only temporarily increased, this time will not affect blood pressure and heart rate, so it will not lead to hypertension, heart discomfort. But if long-term anxiety exists, the body sympathetic nerve will be in a long-term excited state, blood pressure will gradually increase, at this time nerve endings can release a large number of catecholamines, myocardium will be affected, so there will be heart discomfort.
Daily life should be as early as possible away from the stressful environment, usually through exercise to ease the pressure.