If you have a very busy household regime that keeps you too much engaged in the jobs, you may fall victim to the problem of having a high blood pressure. In a recent study by the scientists from the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine in the US, it suggests that stresses and strains of life remains alive even after the work hours of the day and it rises when one reaches home. The group conducted a research on 113 men and women, who work full time and at the same time maintain household chores to come to the conclusion.
The report of the study was published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. Each of the participants gave the details of their daily working hours, levels of responsibility they took for running their home, and the works specifically they did during these working hours. The observation period was for 3 weeks during which these women went for a regular BP checks in the local clinics and finally they were given a BP monitor to wear for a day to track the changes in the BP at different times of the day.
The results revealed that all those men and women who felt that they have more responsibilities to shoulder were at a greater risk of having a high BP. The researchers said, 'The perceived responsibility for household tasks, rather than the time spent doing those tasks, is what's most distressing."
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