A study, reported in The Lancet, presented research linking arterial inflammation to stress (Tawakol et at. 2017)*. What do you hypothesize this would do to a person’s resting diastolic blood pressure? Why? Does the HCPS study support this finding?
In this first study to link regional brain activity to subsequent cardiovascular disease, amygdalar activity independently and robustly predicted cardiovascular disease events. Amygdalar activity is involved partly via a path that includes increased bone-marrow activity and arterial inflammation.
