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How much can your blood pressure raise due to severe anxiety?
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A substantial amount: Severe anxiety has been well known to potentially elevate someone's blood pressure to markedly high levels, potentially enough to cause heart failure, cerebrovascular accident (stroke), or even a ruptured vessel. While severe elevations are not extremely frequent, they are quite common, particularly in patients who already have high blood pressure and are on numerous medicines.
Answered 2/13/2014
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