Stress management & hypertension.

A series of studies have shown that relaxation and stress management therapy may reduce high blood pressure and its complications and this may be so.

Abstract

Review of literature suggests that emotional and social stress is a contributory factor to the development of hypertension. If so, relaxation and stress management therapy may reduce high blood pressure (BP) and its complications. In a series of studies I and my colleagues have shown that this may be so. These studies have been published elsewhere and are briefly summarized here.