"People with hypertension have reduced pain sensitivity," says James A. McCubbin, a psychology professor at Clemson and one of the authors on the study. It turns out that it isn't just hypertensive patients and it isn't just a limited response to pain, but there may be a link between blood pressure and emotional response as well. "A friend of mine in the Netherlands did a study where they asked hypertensive patients how much stress they were under and they didn't report being under much stress, but if you asked their spouse, the spouse would say that their husband or wife was under a lot of stress," McCubbin says."
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