Stroke is a common reason for hospital admission, and it is appropriate for CMS. to want to measure and improve the quality of stroke care. Unfortunately, the two. measures chosen â stroke mortality and readmission within 30 days of hospital. discharge â fail to accurately reflect hospital performance.
In brief: Sinus arrhythimia. This is the kind of heart arrhythmia that anxiety can cause and is a normal heart beat that happens to be irregular in timing. The high rate is similar to when you exercise. Since heart is pumping normally during sinus arrhythmia, it is harmless (other than causing more anxiety). Also, they tend to be short and self-limited, especially if anxiety is relieved. This is the kind of heart arrhythmia that anxiety can cause and is a normal heart beat that happens to be irregular in timing.
When you consider common symptoms of anxiety, such as a pounding heart, sweating, and dizziness or lightheadedness, it seems obvious that anxiety can cause high blood pressure. And indeed, periods of high anxiety do cause temporary spikes in blood pressure that can be quite dramatic. You may think that people with chronic anxiety have a constant increase in blood pressure, but they seem to adapt in a way to their bodyâs constant increase in stress hormones.