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Can lots of recent stress cause high blood pressure?

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Dr. Jerome Zacks answered

Specializes in Cardiology

Sometimes.: In some people, blood pressure is unusually sensitive to stress. However, in the majority, one has to have a propensity to hypertension for stress to augment it. In other words, stress is like an amplifier of the underlying hypertension.

Answered 7/28/2013

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