Posted on 11/22/2022 12:02:54 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Diastolic blood pressure—the lower of the two numbers in a blood pressure reading—is highly likely to cause neurotic personality trait, finds research.
And keeping it under control can help curb neurotic behaviors, anxiety, and heart and circulatory diseases, conclude the researchers.
High blood pressure is a major risk for cardiovascular disease and thought to be associated with psychological factors, such as anxiety, depression, and neuroticism—a personality trait characterized by susceptibility to negative emotions, including anxiety and depression.
But which causes which isn't entirely clear.
In a bid to find out, the researchers used a technique called Mendelian randomization. This uses genetic variants as proxies for a particular risk factor—in this case, blood pressure—to obtain genetic evidence in support of a causal relationship, reducing the biases inherent in observational studies.
Between 30% and 60% of blood pressure is down to genetic factors, and over 1,000 genetic single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs for short, are associated with it. SNPs help predict a person's response to certain drugs, susceptibility to environmental factors, and their risk of developing diseases.
The analysis revealed that high blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure had significant causal effects on neuroticism, but not on anxiety, depressive symptoms, or subjective well-being.
But after adjusting for multiple tests, only diastolic blood pressure was significantly associated with neuroticism (over 90%), based on 1,074 SNPs.
"Individuals with neuroticism can be sensitive to the criticism of others, are often self-critical, and easily develop anxiety, anger, worry, hostility, self-consciousness, and depression."
"Neuroticism is viewed as a key causative factor for anxiety and mood disorders. Individuals with neuroticism more frequently experience high mental stress, which can lead to elevated [blood pressure] and cardiovascular diseases," they write.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Jeez… who knew.
Object was to avoid getting promoted. Because once you got promoted, your odds of picking up one or more neurosis increased. And became more frequent the higher you went.
If you got 6 or more neurosis, I think you were automatically promoted.
Maybe the neurotic personality causes the higher diastolic number.
They are so quick to assert cause when they see a correlation.
Man, the more I read these Medicalexpress links the more I realize I am a walking physiological disaster. But life goes on.
Agreed. I'd also suspect an infection from a fungus, mold, or something similar that causes both high-blood pressure and neuroses.
https://american-springfield.com/does-high-blood-pressure-cause-toenail-fungus-guide-to-eliminating-toenail-fungus-for-good/
https://thedrswolfson.com/how-mold-can-cause-hypertension/
I'd also suspect a side effect of medication.
It doesn’t matter
I’ll probably get hit by a car anyway.
Yep. A lot of that going around in the medical and pharma professions.
I think I made my Quack Neurotic. He says my BP is high. I say his machine is stoopid. It can’t account for the high muscle tension in my arms. His sphygmomanometer blows its top trying to collapse a blood vessel. He’s a slug and I’m in way better shape than he is. We finally agreed he’s not going to worry about my BP any more. He doesn’t have a page in his book for anyone who trained for 40 years. Sometimes jock doctors get closer to the trut since they deal with folks who are in good shape?
I was waiting to see my doctor when I read this... I read it to him... Now, I have seen him laugh... but not quite this hard
This is absolute junk science and Pop Psychology making stuff up. This is why people don’t trust modern medicine.
All I wanted was a Pepsi.
😁
Yep. It’s even dumber than the “brain chemical imbalance” scam. But it keeps the insurance $ flowing. When one fraud is exposed the shrinks just invent another one.
Stage III Hypertension in Patients After mRNA-Based SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination
Blood pressure increase after Pfizer/BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 vaccine
Anything, but the horrid $hots.
TY.
I must be one of the least neurotic people alive.
Excellent!
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