Anxiety and Hypertension: Is There a Link? A Literature Review of the Comorbidity Relationship Between Anxiety and Hypertension

There is increasing evidence of a positive association between comorbid anxiety and hypertension. This contemporaneous review by HIP Investigator, Dr. Heather Johnson supports similar findings in historical studies and provides mechanistic hypotheses for larger, longitudinal studies. The objective of this review is to summarize contemporaneous studies evaluating the relationship between prevalent anxiety and comorbid prevalent hypertension, or the development of incident (future) hypertension.