A regular sense of loneliness in people over 50 years increases the risk of high blood pressure, researchers at the University of Chicago.

Scientists conducted a study in which 229 men and women aged 50 to 68 years. For two whole years, scientists observed the subjects and found out that the level of arterial pressure began to rise in those participants who considered themselves lonely, as the Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka.

Net Experts believe that there is a direct link between loneliness and hypertension, which is not determined by age, nor by the presence or absence of bad habits (smoking or alcoholism), or overweight. The results of the study were published in the medical journal Psychology and Aging.

Experts have established that loneliness is one of the main causes of the development of hypertension. Experts noted that high blood pressure exposes a person to the risk of developing not only a stroke and a heart attack, but also a kidney failure.

Medicinform. Net.