High blood pressure already effects your everyday life, from what you can eat to how much you exercise. But did you know it could also be altering your ability to correctly read emotions?

New research indicates that those with high blood pressure have difficulty interpreting emotions on people’s faces and text messages, called “emotional dampening”. The research focused on African-Americans and it is hypothesized that the emotional dampening may be a result of the way high blood pressure effects the nervous system.

For more information see:
“High Blood Pressure May Lead To Missed Emotional Cues: Study” Huffingtom Post. Published 11/8/11. Retrieved 11/11/11 from

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/high-blood-pressure-leads-to-missed-emotional-cues_n_1080746.html.