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High blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and other cardiovascular risk factors are often blamed on bad diet or lack of exercises.<\/p>\nHigh blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and other cardiovascular risk factors are often blamed on bad diet or lack of exercises.<\/p>\n
And if not lifestyle factors, then they say it\u2019s the genes.<\/p>\n
But a new study from by the American Health Association<\/em> and published in the journal Circulation<\/em> reveals another reason, one that has nothing to do with above factors.<\/p>\n It\u2019s something I hope didn\u2019t happen in your childhood, but if you\u2019re suffering any cardiovascular related diseases, it may be.<\/p>\n After conducting a literature review of already published research on the subject, researchers concluded that children who experience traumatic events have a relatively high risk of obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, or other cardiovascular risk factors when they grow up.<\/p>\n This places them at a higher risk than their peers of suffering heart attacks or strokes as adults.<\/p>\n Childhood adversity includes anything kids see as threats to their physical safety, families, or social survival.<\/p>\n These obviously include sexual, physical, or emotional abuse, but also the death of a loved one, divorce, and growing up in a household where parents are mentally ill, abuse alcohol\/drugs, or display violence towards each other.<\/p>\n Homelessness, poverty, discrimination, the imprisonment of a parent, and living in areas with high crime rates are also on the list.<\/p>\n Possibly most worrying of all, bullying at school, which is disturbingly widespread, has been identified as another form of childhood adversity.<\/p>\n 59% of American children report experiencing at least one of these. The risk is the highest for kids who experience four or more of them.<\/p>\n This is just one more study proving that stress is the number one cause of high blood pressure. And it doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re under a stress right now. Stress gets stored in your system and unless you take actions to remove that stress, it comes out as a high blood pressure.<\/p>\n