Parents have lower blood pressure
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Parents have a stressful job. It isn’t easy raising kids, but new research calls into question some long-held beliefs about physical and psychological effects of having kids.
Surprisingly, a new study finds that parents have better blood pressure readings than childless adults.
“Women were driving the effect,” says co-author Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. “Women with children had the lowest blood pressure, and women without had the highest” of those studied.
They monitored the blood pressure of 198 adults ages 20-68, who wore portable monitors, which took random readings three times an hour, several times a day, over 24 hours, even while they slept.
What it all means is anyones guess, but maybe parents actually learn to cope better with stresses.
Last Updated on January 14th, 2010
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