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Young Hearts, Troubled Minds: The Two-Way Link Between Mental Illness and High Blood Pressure Worldwide
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Hypertension and common mental disorders crest on the same timeline, from late teens into early midlife, yet healthcare pathways rarely intersect. This review asks two questions: How strongly do mood, anxiety, trauma-related, or severe mental illnesses alter blood-pressure trajectories, and when does elevated pressure echo back on mental health? We searched the biomedical and grey literature (2000-2025) for studies involving 15- to 45-year-olds and distilled converging themes from epidemiology, genetics, mechanistic work, and intervention trials. Consistent evidence shows depressive, anxious, and trauma-related conditions tilt autonomic and inflammatory set points long before a hypertension diagnosis is made. The reverse pathway proves selective: pressure-driven vascular injury, medication effects, and disease labeling nurture later mood disturbance, but early-stage hypertension is often affectively silent. Importantly, collaborative-care models, whether nurse-led in community clinics or delivered through text and app platforms, repeatedly produce parallel gains in mood scores and systolic control. Joint screening and integrated management in young adults, therefore, offer a practical lever to blunt two interwoven epidemics.
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Bidirectional Pathways Collaborative Care Hypertension Mental Health Disorders Young Adults
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