Heart and Artery Damage and High Blood Pressure. There are several harmful consequences for your arteries and heart because high blood pressure, also called HBP or hypertension, places a higher workload on them. It addition, high blood pressure can damage other organs. Watch an animation of how HBP affects your arteries and your heart.
Just as dermatologists have a responsibility to identify medical conditions with cutaneous manifestations, they must be alert for psychological conditions affecting the skin.
See also: Somatisation/Somatoform Disorders written for patients. Clinicians can often find the management of patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) frustrating. In all parts of our healthcare system we meet patients presenting with physical symptoms that lack an obvious organic basis. The terms used to describe such symptoms - medically unexplained symptoms or functional somatic symptoms - are purely descriptive and do not imply psychogenesis.