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Parental history of hypertension and enhanced cardiovascular reactivity are associated with decreased pain ratings
Author(s) -
FRANCE CHRISTOPHER R.,
STEWART KATHRYN M.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1995.tb01233.x
Subject(s) - hypoalgesia , blood pressure , cold pressor test , heart rate , psychology , reactivity (psychology) , stressor , cardiology , ischemia , anesthesia , medicine , psychiatry , nociception , receptor , alternative medicine , hyperalgesia , pathology
Abstract Ischemic pain was examined in adult males with and without a parental history of hypertension. Blood pressure and heart rate were recorded during baseline, cold pressor, and ischemia. Repeated pain ratings were obtained during cold pressor and ischemia, and the McGill Pain Questionnaire was completed after each stressor. A median split was used to identify high and low mean arterial pressure and heart rate reactors to cold pressor. Parental history of hypertension, high heart rate reactivity, and high mean arterial pressure reactivity were each associated with significantly lower ischemic pain ratings on the McGill Pain Questionnaire, suggesting that risk for hypertension is associated with hypoalgesia in normotensives.