Question

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?

Answer 1

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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.

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