Bad moods can also lead to hypertension?

Everyone has the seven emotions and six sensory pleasures, want not, there will be emotional instability, joy, anger, sorrow, will be happy. Occasional mild mood changes little effect on the human body, but too much, too long, or too strong emotional changes in causing damage. Emotion, anger, anxiety, fear of either, or sad, may cause blood pressure was increased, its reason is due to a nervous, mental factors of higher nervous activity disturbances, resulting in blood pressure regulation in the advanced plant neural reactivity enhancement, blood tube active substances, such as increased secretion of catecholamines, arteriolar spasm contraction, blood pressure. Therefore, the attentional control of emotional, to prevent the occurrence of hypertension and development have very important significance.

Then, an emotional why elevated blood pressure, slightly down to recover? The reason is the emotion of higher nervous activity, in an emotional, in cerebral cortex of rats, can be excited in medulla oblongata of heart rate acceleration center and vasoconstrictor centre, the sympathetic nervous system and adrenal activity increased, this time generally, not only the sympathetic nerve endings by the release of neurotransmitters, noradrenaline increased, by adrenal medullary secretion into the blood adrenaline content also increased significantly. In the sympathetic nerve and adrenergic interaction, on one hand, strengthen, accelerate the contraction of the heart, cardiac output increased; on the other hand, most of the body region with small vasoconstriction, increased peripheral resistance. As a result of increased cardiac output and peripheral resistance increase, and increased blood pressure. Quietly, the one from the cerebral cortex nerve impulses to reduce, sympathoadrenal system activity weakened, so that blood pressure decline; on the other hand, when the elevated blood pressure, but also through the aortic arch and carotid sinus baroreceptor reflex, return to normal blood pressure.

Long-term, repeated changes in mood, often elevated blood pressure, sympathetic and adrenocortical activity enhancement, finally, blood pressure will get rid of the sympathetic and adrenocortical, pressure is maintained in sustained elevated levels, becoming hypertensive disease.