Open AccessDifferences in Emotion Processing in Patients With Essential and Secondary Hypertension
Author(s) -
Silla M. Consoli,
Cédric Lemogne,
B. Roch,
S. Laurent,
P.-F. Plouin,
Richard D. Lane
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
american journal of hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1941-7225
pISSN - 0895-7061
DOI - 10.1038/ajh.2010.9
Subject(s) - alexithymia , essential hypertension , medicine , confounding , blood pressure , toronto alexithymia scale , cognition , clinical psychology , psychiatry
An impaired ability to experience and express emotions, known as alexithymia, has previously been associated with hypertension. Alexithymia and related emotion-processing variables, however, have never been examined as a function of the type of hypertension, essential (EH) or secondary (SH).
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