A few days ago, someone asked me to answer the question of the relationship between mood and blood pressure, because he felt that as long as he was angry, his blood pressure would rise rapidly, but his wife always felt that he was quibbling, so she asked me about "the connection between blood pressure and mood".
I can tell you with certainty: "Emotions and blood pressure are very closely related, if you are in negative high pressure or happy and sad for a long time, it is easy to make blood pressure rise quickly and become dangerous."
First of all, we need to understand what blood pressure is?
Blood pressure is a fluctuating physiological indicator, it is the pressure of blood on the side wall of a blood vessel during the flow of blood, it can be affected by four factors:
1. Blood flow: For the same volume and length of the "pipe", one is injected with 10 kg of water and the other is injected with 1 kg of water, can the pressure generated by the two at the same position be the same?
2. Cardiac function: The reason why blood can circulate and flow in the body is because the heart pumps blood all year round, the better the heart function, the stronger the force exerted on the blood, the faster the blood flow speed, the higher the pressure generated at this time, and the blood pressure will naturally rise rapidly.
3. Peripheral arteries: there are multiple blood vessels in the human body, they have different locations, different thicknesses, different names, different blood vessels of different thicknesses can pass through the blood is different, those relatively small, remote arterioles are clinically called peripheral arteries, because of their relatively small nature, the blood can not pass in time, can only wait at one end, and eventually affect the overall blood flow of the whole body, so that blood pressure rises rapidly.
4. Vascular elasticity: the younger the person, the better the vascular elasticity, the lower the chance of suffering from hypertension, but this is only one of the causes of hypertension, if the patient's vascular elasticity is poor, then it will not be able to adapt to the entry and outflow of blood, in general, a large amount of blood inflows, blood pressure increases, blood vessels can expand if the elasticity is better, then blood pressure will naturally drop, because the contact area increases, blood pressure will naturally decrease, but if the elasticity is poor and cannot be expanded, then blood pressure will rise rapidly.
The Effect of Mood (Mood) on Blood Pressure!
Combined with the above 4 factors that can affect blood pressure, the simplest effect of emotions leading to increased blood pressure is blood volume.
When the patient is in a state of negative high pressure or great joy and sorrow recently, the nervous system will not be able to function normally, destroy the original excitation and inhibition mode, and be in a state of disorder, the appearance of this state will make the innervated blood vessels spasm and contract, and the volume of blood vessels will be reduced, which will greatly reduce blood volume and increase blood pressure.
And this is still a short-term effect, you must know that the blood vessels were originally different from the present, when the blood vessels are in a state of spasmodic contraction for a long time, the smooth muscle will gradually tear and bleed, accelerate the formation of plaque thrombosis, further obstruct the flow of blood, and reduce the elasticity of blood vessels, so that blood pressure will increase significantly.
Don't underestimate emotions, many diseases are closely related to mental factors, long-term negative emotions will have a great impact on our physical health, we must learn to release stress appropriately, to avoid the body being dragged down.
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