Sung Keun Park, Ju Young Jung, Jae-Hong Ryoo, Chang-Mo Oh, Jae-Hon Lee, Zihang Pan, Rodrigo B Mansur, Margarita Shekotikhina, Roger S McIntyre, Joong-Myung Choi
There has been increasing evidence about psychosomatic relationship between mood disorder and blood pressure (BP). However, the degree to which BP categories are associated with depression has been less well described. Thus, this study was to investigate the association of depression with BP categories. A total of 90,643 men and 68,933 women were enrolled in this study. They were stratified into four groups (normal, prehypertension, newly diagnosed hypertension, and recognized hypertension) according to the BP levels and the history of hypertension...
February 16, 2018: Journal of the American Society of Hypertension: JASH