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- Title
Recipe for High Blood Pressure.
- Authors
Brown, Valerie J.
- Abstract
This article reports upon research that suggests that stress aggravates the adverse effects of exposure to lead on blood pressure. A Normative Aging Study, conducted in and around Boston, Massachusetts, studied the levels of stress and lead in the systems of a group of men over many years. Many of these men had hypertension or were found to eventually develop hypertension. The study suggests that those men who experienced the most stress also felt the effects of lead exposure most prominently. It also reiterated previous research that suggested that stress and lead only influence systolic pressure.
- Subjects
BOSTON (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; HYPERTENSION risk factors; LEAD in the body; BLOOD pressure; PHYSIOLOGICAL stress
- Publication
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2007, Vol 115, Issue 8, pA417
- ISSN
0091-6765
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1289/ehp.115-a417a