Relationship quality: Effects on ambulatory blood pressure and negative affect in a biracial sample of men and women

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 117-124

  Grewen, Karen M ^a   Girdler, Susan S ^a   Light, Kathleen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

24 h urinary norepinephrine; Ambulatory blood pressure; Relationship quality; Social support

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URINE LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; SINGLE PERSON; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 20844448541     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126097-200506000-00002     Document Type: Article

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