Can Chronic Stress Cause High Blood Pressure

Long-term mental tension is easy to cause high blood pressure, this is mainly due to mental tension, the sympathetic nerve in the body will be overly excited, and sympathetic nerve excitation will produce a series of physiological effects, such as increased cardiac muscle contraction, increased heart rate, and produce these two effects will cause high blood pressure, so long-term tension is easy to blood pressure rise. This kind of people in the choice of antihypertensive drugs preferred bisoprolol, this kind of drug has the effect of reducing sympathetic excitability, more suitable for high blood pressure caused by mental tension. Due to nervousness-induced blood pressure elevation are often relatively light, will not exceed hypertension level 2, first bisoprolol, try not to choose nifedipine. Elevated blood pressure caused by nervousness focuses on psychological treatment, must relax, avoid emotional tension, blood pressure will be stable.