{"id":144,"date":"2006-03-29T11:19:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T16:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/144"},"modified":"2006-03-29T11:20:47","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T16:20:47","slug":"just-what-i-needed-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/144","title":{"rendered":"Just What I Needed To Hear…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just have to face it…I’m doomed<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Loneliness Boosts Blood Pressure in Older Adults<\/strong><\/span>
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TUESDAY, March 28 (HealthDay News) — Loneliness has now joined obesity and lack of exercise as a potential risk factor for hypertension.<\/p>\n

New research shows that loneliness can add 30 points to a blood pressure reading for adults over the age of 50.<\/p>\n

The study’s results have surprised everyone involved.<\/p>\n

"The take-home message is that feelings of loneliness are a health risk, in that the lonelier you are, the higher your blood pressure. And we know that high blood pressure has all kinds of negative consequences," said lead researcher Louise Hawkley, a research scientist at the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

Her team published its findings in the April issue of Psychology and Aging<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thing is…my blood pressure is just fine.  If anything it’s on the low side of just fine.  But then, they always take my blood pressure reading after I’ve spent about a half hour to an hour quietly zoning out in the waiting room. I hate sitting around waiting, and when it’s an inevitable thing I’ll just stare off into space and zone out.  It’s either that or climb the walls.  When I finally get called in to see the doctor I’m actually in a very mellow state.  But that’s not typically me. <\/p>\n

I had a long AIM conversation with a certain someone a few weeks ago…that might have been a good time to take my blood pressure reading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just have to face it…I’m doomed… Loneliness Boosts Blood Pressure in Older Adults TUESDAY, March 28 (HealthDay News) — Loneliness has now joined obesity and lack of exercise as a potential risk factor for hypertension. New research shows that loneliness can add 30 points to a blood pressure reading for adults over the age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}