Hypertension
Monday, March 24, 2008
Happily Marrieds Have Lower Blood Pressure Than Social Singles
Happily married adults have lower blood pressure than singles with supportive social networks. Both men and women in happy marriages scored four points lower on 24-hour blood pressure than single adults. Having supportive friends did not translate into improved blood pressure for singles or unhappily marrieds.
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Thursday, January 03, 2008
Happy? It may help keep you healthy
A happy heart just might be a healthier one as well, new research suggests. In a study of nearly 3,000 healthy British adults, led by Dr. Andrew Steptoe of University College London, found that those who reported upbeat moods had lower levels of cortisol — a “stress” hormone that, when chronically elevated, may contribute to high blood pressure, abdominal obesity and dampened immune function, among other problems.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Biofeedback Reinvented - New Discoveries Show that the Heart Pulses Messages that Reveal Feelings
HeartMath essentially reinvented biofeedback in 1999 when they introduced the first affordable consumer stress-reduction product using their patented heart rhythm feedback. Their focus on heart rhythm feedback provided a refreshing departure from conventional biofeedback practices, and has since been adopted by more than ten thousand health professionals worldwide as an effective and invaluable tool for patients suffering from stress-related issues. Internationally respected for their research-based stress solutions, HeartMath peer-reviewed studies have demonstrated the critical link between emotions, heart function, and cognitive performance.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
BYU study shows why some friendships make blood pressure rise
Love-hate relationships may threaten your cardiovascular health by preventing your body from relaxing in everyday situations and by failing to provide social support during more stressful times.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Does a peptide affect the heart’s response to social isolation?
A team of researchers investigating the effects of oxytocin, a peptide produced by the brain that regulates social behavior, has found that it can prevent detrimental cardiac responses in adult female animals exposed to social isolation. The findings may provide further insight into how these mechanisms affect humans. The social environment plays an important role in regulating both behavior and cardiovascular function in humans. Negative social interactions, such as loneliness or social isolation, may increase the risk of developing depression and anxiety as well as heart disease.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
Our emWave Personal Stress Reliever is on sale until the end of the April for $20.00 off. If you’re interested in realtime stress reduction and peak performance, please take a look at the two-minute demo.
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
Modern life puts stress on heart
The stress of everyday life threatens to fuel an epidemic of cardiovascular disease, a report warns. The study says high blood pressure is rife, and implicates modern, frantic lifestyles, warning many under-estimate the problem at their peril. The team of international experts warns that one in four adults already has the condition - but if nothing is done that figure could rise by 60% over 20 years.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Job Stress Jacks Up Blood Pressure
At work, after work—even during sleep—stressful jobs jack up workers’ blood pressure, a Belgian study finds. It’s not a huge increase—but it’s enough to confer a substantial risk of heart disease.
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
Positive emotions linked to lower blood pressure
Having a positive outlook makes life more enjoyable, and it may also lower blood pressure in older adults. Among more than 2,500 people aged 65 or older, the higher a person scored on a questionnaire measuring positive emotions, the lower was his or her blood pressure.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Long workdays linked to high blood pressure
When you work overtime, so does your heart. Long workdays are a risk factor for high blood pressure, according to the results of a study released Monday by UC Irvine researchers. People who work more than 40 hours a week were 17 percent more likely to report having high blood pressure than people who work less than full-time. Working more than 50 hours a week increased the likelihood of high blood pressure by almost a third. Nearly one in five people who work 50-plus hours a week report having high blood pressure, the researchers discovered. The average full-time working American reportedly spends 48 hours a week on the job according to a report from the nonprofit Families and Work Institute.
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Friday, August 04, 2006
Blood pressure rises in stressed-out workers
New study findings confirm what some office managers, senior management officials and other white-collar workers have suspected for years: working in highly stressful jobs can increase your blood pressure.
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
Absence makes the heart grow weaker
Loneliness is bad for the heart, suggests a new study. It shows that loneliness increases the blood pressure of those nearing retirement age to the same degree as smoking or a sedentary lifestyle. Chronic feelings of social isolation are associated with as much as a 30 mmHg rise in a person’s systolic blood pressure by the age of 65, which could easily push their systolic blood pressure over 150 mmHg, the medical definition of hypertension.
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Monday, July 03, 2006
Our natural instinct to heal
No more Freud. No more Prozac. French psychiatrist David Servan-Schreiber shows how the body can heal stress, anxiety and depression.
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Sunday, July 02, 2006
Job stress raises blood pressure
White-collar workers should beware, say experts who have shown that chronic job stress can raise blood pressure.
High job demands, tight deadlines and low support in the workplace appeared to be triggers, particularly in men. The Canadian team at Laval University, Quebec, followed 6,719 workers over more than seven years.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
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