Hypertension and stress go hand in hand; stress has a direct effect on hypertension. Stress is the body’s reaction to any change that requires an adjustment or response. The body reacts to these changes with physical, mental, and emotional response. Most people give difference answers to what stress really is because it affects their body’s differently. What is stressful for one person may be pleasurable or have little effect on them and we all react to stress differently.
Stress also increases the heart rate and can lead to the increase of blood pressure, thus Hypertension and can lead to Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). Although this disease can be caused by the indirect effects. Indirect effects of stress are associated with the bad habits that stress causes us to take part in, these included smoking, poor diet and alcohol abuse. These poor habits can thus lead to ill-effects on one’s health. These issues are more related to chronic stress rather than acute stress and it occurs for a long period, thus affecting health for a longer period.
Stress becomes very dangerous when they use alcohol, tobacco or drugs to try and relieve the stress. Instead of relieving the body it will keep your body at the same stress level or your body can become even more stressed
In terms of biochemistry, chemical imbalances in the brain may be involved in certain mental illnesses. Neurotransmitters, for example, play a very important part in behaviour – one theory links depression to low levels of the neurotransmitters serotonin and noradrenaline. However, the relationship between neurotransmitters and depression is very complex and therefore, more research is needed to discover the exact link between this and the disorder. People suffering from depression, also often have high levels of the hormone cortisol. Cortisol is sometimes referred to as a ‘stress hormone’ because it is produced in times of stress.
Outcome 1 Know what a stroke is 1.1 Identify the changes in the brain associated with stroke Heart attacks and strokes are usually due to cardiovascular disease, a condition featuring body-wide damage to the delicate lining of the arteries the tubes that carry oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to all the organs, tissues and cells in your body and to the brain. The psychological, behavioural and emotional changes that take place after a stroke are part caused by physical damage to the brain. When the brain cells are damaged the sensations and parts of the body controlled by the cells can no longer function properly. This usually affects the left hand side of the body. But I personally have seen someone who has had a stroke and it has
For example, a large person generally needs more of a drug than a smaller person needs for the same effect. Whether people take a drug as instructed also affects their response to it. These factors may affect how the body absorbs the drug, how the body breaks down and eliminates the drug, or what effects the drug has on the body. Because so many factors affect drug response, doctors and pharmacists must choose a drug appropriate for each person and must adjust the dose carefully. This process is more complex if the person takes other drugs and has other diseases, because drug-drug and drug-disease interactions are possible.
Other Contributing Factors Smoking Smoking causes vasoconstriction, leading to increase in blood pressure and damaged blood vessels. If have an existing hypertension, tobacco use can even worsen the condition. Better kick the habit NOW! Stress Anxiety and stress can temporarily raise your blood pressure. Science has not proven how stress causes HBP but some scientists believe that stress can affect a person’s behaviour towards health, decision-making and socioeconomic status.
Physiological ‘Stress’, marked by the secretion of glucocorticoid hormones and often referred as the negative consequence of an animal’s failure to cope with changing environment, in certain circumstances, is a need in ensuring survival and allowing adaptation to such change (Wielebnowski et al. 2002; Moberg 2000; Mostl and Palme, 2002; Menargues et. al. 2008). But if it persists for a prolonged duration, the continuous action of high concentration of Glucocorticoid on liver, muscle and adipose tissues, loses it adaptive value, adversely impacts the muscle and bone impairing the endocrine and immune function, degrading the body mass, individual fitness and causing reproductive failure resulting the long-term behavioural changes as supported by the Cort-fitness hypothesis (Munck et al.
However, Caplan et al (1975) contradicts this research, finding that ambitious employees, similar to those with high job control in Marmot’s study, were more likely to suffer from stress related illness. This means that neither source was particularly reliable. Johansson et al (1978) used a different method of data gathering, instead choosing to complete a study on the stress reactions in highly mechanised work. He used urine samples to discover the link between high-risk finishers and low-risk cleaners, and their stress levels. Johansson concluded that work stressors, like repetitiveness and high levels of responsibility, create long term physiological arousal leading that stress-related illness and absenteeism.
The main question is why do the more emotionally arousing events in our life become so buried deep in our memories. The researchers studied the participants physiologically and found that the arousing stimuli triggered the release of stress hormones. This would then cause the neurotransmitters to increase the activation of the amygdale, which helps encode the emotional aspects of experiences to long term memory. (McGaugh & Roozendaal, 2002) This shows that extreme emotional memories are stored in a different way to other memories. James, 1890 once claimed that ‘an impression maybe so exciting (or