Open AccessDoes Autonomic Function Link Social Position to Coronary Risk?
Author(s) -
Harry Hemingway,
Martin J. Shipley,
Eric J. Brunner,
Annie Britton,
Marek Malík,
Michael Marmot
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.104.497347
Subject(s) - medicine , autonomic function , position (finance) , cardiology , heart rate variability , heart rate , blood pressure , finance , economics
Laboratory and clinical studies suggest that the autonomic nervous system responds to chronic behavioral and psychosocial stressors with adverse metabolic consequences and that this may explain the relation between low social position and high coronary risk. We sought to test this hypothesis in a healthy occupational cohort.
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