How city living can raise your blood pressure 7 Articles

by Kimberly Bunch

Big City Living When I moved to the big city it was to get away from my ex and his party ways. I was pregnant and decided that there was no way I could remain living in the country around him because of his drug and alcoh...read more

by Sande Waybill

I seem to have lived in a variety of places across the span of my life, from a small English village and a regional town in my youth, to an Australian trailer park and satellite city in my forties. Whereas my current resid...read more

by Shaheen D.

Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as it is carried from the heart to all the parts of the body. Normal blood pressure is 120/80 but if it stays at about 140/90 or higher the...read more

by April Storme

"Sensory overload" is the best way to describe my experience the first few weeks after moving from my city's outskirts into the downtown 2 years ago. The sheer number of things going on all at once was an assault on the s...read more

by Kimberley Heit

I've certainly felt more at peace breathing in country air and listening to the birds chirp rather then been confronted with smog, car horns and commotion. I have often wondered whether this was just in my head or if there...read more

by Suzanne Marsh

"You idiot: what did you do that for?" Is that one of your favorite phrases while driving in any large city? If it is, you are not alone, welcome to the world of living and driving in a large city. Let's take a...read more

by Ryan Kemner

I recently moved into a big city and live about three miles from downtown. The city of which I reside in is irrelevant, however to put it into some perspective it is in the top twenty largest cities in the United States. ...read more