Acute psychologic stress reactivity in blacks versus whites: Relationship to psychologic characteristics

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-32

  Haeri, Soraya L ^a   Mills, Paul J ^a   Nelesen, Richard A ^a   Berry, Charles C ^c   Ziegler, Michael G ^b   Dillon, Elaine ^a   Dimsdale, Joel E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Anxiety; Blood pressure; Coping; Depression; Impedance cardiography; Race; Reactivity; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002899765     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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