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lowers blood pressure: 22-year follow-up of the population based
HUNT study, Norway  BMC Public Health  2011;11:601. For decades,
symptoms of anxiety and depression have been included among
psychological factors associated with development of
hypertension. Although this has been questioned in recent
studies, most findings have been based on a single assessment of
mental distress at baseline. We examined these associations
using repeated assessments of anxiety, depression and blood
pressure. Data on 17,410 men and women aged 20 to 67
participating in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) in
Norway in 1984-86 were re-examined 11 and 22 years later. The
main outcome was change in mean blood pressure (mm Hg) during
follow-up. We found that a high symptom level score (≥80th
percentile) of combined anxiety and depression at baseline, as
compared to a lower symptom level, was associated with lower
mean sy