Open AccessCardiovascular Response to Mental Stress Tests and the Prediction of Blood Pressure
Author(s) -
Kornag Yuenyongchaiwat
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.211744
Subject(s) - blood pressure , stressor , cold pressor test , hemodynamics , body mass index , medicine , reactivity (psychology) , cardiology , mental arithmetic , prospective cohort study , disease , psychology , heart rate , clinical psychology , pathology , alternative medicine
It has been proposed that increased physiological responses (i.e., cardiovascular reactivity) to a stressor or stressors may increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) including increased blood pressure (BP) or hypertension. However, many prospective studies have examined the hemodynamic reactions to laboratory stress tests and CVD in Western countries and only a few studies have examined with varying durations of follow-up in the same sample studies. In addition, still relatively little is known about cardiovascular reactivity in Asian populations. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine whether cardiovascular responses to psychological stressors remained a significant predictor of 40-month follow-up among initially normotensive participants in Thailand, Asia.