Blood pressure rises in stressed-out workers


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New study findings confirm what some office managers, senior management officials and other white-collar workers have suspected for years: working in highly stressful jobs can increase your blood pressure.

"These results suggest that primary interventions aimed at reducing job strain may have significant effects on blood pressure," Dr. Chantal Guimont, of Laval University, in Quebec City, Quebec, and her colleagues write in this month's American Journal of Public Health.

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