Aspiring to be a higher class than one is. Derived from bourgeois - meaning middle/upper class, traditionally despised by communists. When my friend Miya wears a blazer or Lucy gets a massage I call them bougie cause we're unemployed college students. by indi June 23, 2004.
But since the nerve pathways of the spine and the brain are involved in the syndrome, the heart can be involved in addition to the stress of the RSD/CRPS and the losses it entails and the pain and depression that are part of it.
Salt/Sodium Studies have also shown that when stress causes hypertension (high blood pressure) because of the examples above, your body may have trouble excreting sodium. Thus high blood pressure may be somewhat self-sustaining as a result of anxiety, because sodium also causes an increase in blood pressure.