How does stress affect the health of my arteries?

Stress causes direct aging of the arteries, and this increases blood pressure, driving it even higher. Elevated blood pressure causes the greatest acceleration of arterial aging. Research at Johns Hopkins Medical School indicated that people who had elevated blood pressure when exposed to mental "stress tests" (not just the physical treadmill stress tests normally used to detect heart strain) were more than twenty times more likely to have heart and arterial diseases.

Furthermore, individuals who had "hot" reactions -- those who were more likely to get agitated or frustrated by life events -- had twenty times the rate of arterial aging, as measured by the incidence of heart attacks and strokes, than people who had "cool" reactions. Other studies have shown that those who keep anger inside rather than expressing it outwardly (those who are stressed internally) have the greatest risk of aging from the stress.

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