Abstract
This study examines the relationship between hypertension and life satisfaction using more objective measures of hypertension from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Our results confirm the analysis in Blanchflower and Oswald (Citation2008): there is a significant negative correlation between high blood pressure problems and life satisfaction.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Andrew Oswald and David Blanchflower for valuable comments on an earlier version of this article.
Notes
1The wording of the corresponding SHARE question being: ‘About how old were you when you were first told by a doctor that you had high blood pressure?’
2Regression results available upon request.