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HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 111-118Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC/EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING FOUNDATION
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.25.1.111
Keywords
cardiovascular reactivity; cardiovascular recovery; stress blood pressure; hypertension
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- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL056346] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL56346, HL07560] Funding Source: Medline
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The authors examined whether cardiovascular reactivity to and recovery from psychological challenge predict 3-year change in blood pressure (BP) among 216 initially normotensive, community-dwelling adults. Clinic BP assessments were conducted at baseline and follow-up. BP and heart rate (HR) readings were obtained before, during, and after 5 psychological tasks at baseline. Following adjustment for traditional predictors of BP and lifestyle factors, poorer systolic BP recovery across the tasks was associated with greater 3-year increases in clinic systolic and diastolic BP. Both diastolic BP recovery and HR recovery were also related to 3-year change in clinic BP, though cardiovascular reactivity measures were not. These findings suggest that the duration of stress-related cardiovascular responses may be important for predicting longitudinal changes in BP.
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