Can Chest pain be stress related?

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I am 35 years old. I have been experiencing chest pain for the last one month. Right now I am under a lot of stress. The symptoms are very similar to that of a heart disease. The pain is in the upper middle and left side of the chest. The pain radiates to my shoulder and left arm. There is no sweating or nausea. The pain is almost always there throughout the day and in the night. It is a dull pain as if something is pushing from inside of my chest. A few years back also I had a similar experience like this. That time also I was going through a lot of stress due to my job and that time I had gone for extensive investigation to the extent of a CT angio. Everything was normal. But I have high bp since the last 10 years or so. I was diagnosed with high bp at the age of 25. The doctors were not able to find the reason. I am under medication ever since. Could the chest pain be stress related.
 
Are you SURE they couldn't find a reason for your high blood pressure?

Major causes of high blood pressure
The causes of high blood pressure are both biomedical and lifestyle oriented. Major causes include overweight, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, dietary salt intake and nutrition patterns which involve a low intake of fruit and vegetables and a high intake of saturated fat.
Stress raises blood pressure transiently but in the long term may have indirect effects by influencing eating, drinking smoking and physical activity patterns. Tobacco smoking increases the risk of heart attack and stroke threefold in hypertensive individuals.

The majority of reasons for it are lifestyle related.

And yes,they could be connected.
 
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