Intimate partner violence and cardiovascular risk: Is there a link?

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2186-2197

  Scott Storey, Kelly ^a   Wuest, Judith ^b   Ford Gilboe, Marilyn ^c  

^a Dr Everett Chalmers Hospital   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular risk; Hypertension; Intimate partner violence; Nursing; Obesity; Secondary analysis; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349160326     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2009.05086.x     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Acierno R., Kilpatrick D.G., Saunders H.S. Best C.L. (1996) Violent assault, posttraumatic stress disorder, and depression. Risk factors for cigarette use among adult women. Behavior Modification 20 (4 363 384.
2. American Heart Association (2005) American Heart Association's Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics - 2005 Update. American Heart Association, Dallas, TX.
3. Arnstein P., Buselli E. Rankin S. (1996) Women and heart attack: prevention, diagnosis and care. The Nurse Practitioner 21, 57 64.
4. Baer C. (2004) Women and heart disease. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Retrieved from http://ww1.heartandstroke.ca/Page.asp?PageID= 815&RecordID=3058&Src=news on 1 June 2004.
5. Buckley J.P. (1983) Present status of stress research related to the development of cardiovascular disease. In Selye's Guide to Stress Research : Vol. 2 (Selye H., ed Scientific and Academic Editions, New York, pp. 363 374.
6. Campbell J. Soeken K. (1999) Women's responses to battering: a test of the model. Research in Nursing & Health 22, 49 58.
7. Campbell D.W., Campbell J.C., King C., Parker B. Ryan J. (1994) The reliability and factor structure of the index of spouse abuse with African-American battered women. Violence and Victims 9 (3 259 274.
8. Carlson B.E. (1997) A stress and coping approach to intervention with abused women. Family Relations 46 (3 291 298.
9. Carlson K.J. (2002) Approach to the patient and her family. In Cardiovascular Health and Disease in Women, 2nd edn (Douglas P., ed W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 3 7.
10. Cohen M.M. Maclean H. (2003) Chapter 21 Violence against Canadian women. In Women's Health Surveillance Report (DesMeules M., Stewart D., McLean H., Payne J., Vissandjée B. Kazanjian A., eds Canadian Institute for Health Information, Ottawa, ON, pp. 1 31.
11. Delfino R.J., Jamner L.D. Whalen C.K. (2001) Temporal analysis of the relationship of smoking behavior and urges to mood states in men versus women. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 3 (3 235 248.
12. Eby K.K. (2004) Exploring the stressors of low-income women with abusive partners: understanding their needs and developing effective community responses. Journal of Family Violence 19 (4 221 232.
13. Eggen A.E. (1994) Pattern of drug use in a general population: prevalence and predicting factors: the Tromso study. International Journal of Epidemiology 23 (6 1262 1272.
14. Elliott S.J. (1995) Psychological stress, women and heart health: a critical review. Social Science & Medicine 40 (1 105 115.
15. Farish E. Lindsay G. (2004) Women and coronary heart disease. In Coronary Heart Disease Prevention: A Handbook for the Health-Care Team, 2nd edn (Lindsay G. Gaw A., eds Elsevier Science, New York, pp. 287 307.
16. Fleury R.E., Sullivan C.M. Bybee D.H. (2000) When ending the relationship does not end the violence. Violence Against Women 6 (12 1363 1383.
17. Ford-Gilboe M., Wuest J. Merritt-Gray M. (2005) Strengthening capacity to limit intrusion: theorizing family health promotion in the aftermath of women abuse. Qualitative Health Research 15 (4 477 501.
18. Ford-Gilboe M., Wuest J., Varcoe C., Davies L., Merritt-Gray M., Campbell J. Wilk P. (2009) Modelling the effects of intimate partner violence and access to resources on women's health in the early years after leaving an abusive partner. Social Science & Medicine 68 (6 1021 1029.
19. Frayne S.M., Skinner K.M., Sullivan L.M., Tripp T.J., Hankin C.S., Kressin N.R. Miller D.C. (1999) Medical profiles of women veterans administration outpatients who report a history of sexual assault occurring while in the military. Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine 8 (6 835 845.
20. Frayne S.M., Skinner K.M., Sullivan L.M. Freund K.M. (2003) Sexual assault while in the military. Violence as a predictor of cardiac risk. Violence and Victims 18 (2 219 225.
21. Garcia-Moreno C., Jansen H., Ellsberg M., Heise L. Watts C.H. (2006) Prevalence of intimate partner violence: findings form the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence. Lancet 368, 1260 1269.
22. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (2003) The Growing Burden of Heart Disease and Stroke in Canada, 2003. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
23. Hotton T. (2001) Spousal violence after marital separation. Juristat 21 (7 1 19.
24. Hudson W. McIntosh S. (1981) The assessment of spouse abuse: two quantifiable dimensions. Journal of Marriage and the Family 43 (4 873 888.
25. Hughes S. Hayman L.L. (2004) Improving cardiovascular health in women: an opportunity for nursing. The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing 19 (2 145 147.
26. Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment for High Blood Pressure [JNC VII] (2004) The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD (NIH Publication No. 04-5230).
27. Leech N.C., Barrett K.C. Morgan G.A. (2005) SPSS for Intermediate Statistics: Use and Interpretation. Lawrence Erlabum, Mahwah, NJ.
28. Letourneau E., Holmes M. Chasedunn-Roark J. (1999) Gynecologic health consequences to victims of interpersonal violence. Women's Health Issues 9 (2 115 120.
29. Lown E.A. Vega W.A. (2001) Intimate partner violence and health: self-assessed health, chronic health, and somatic symptoms among Mexican American women. Psychosomatic Medicine 63 (3 352 360.
30. Miller C. (2003) Symptom reflections of women with cardiac disease and advanced practice nurses: a descriptive study. Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing 18 (2 69 76.
31. Milner K.A., Funk M., Richards S., Wilmes R.M., Vaccarino V. Krumholz H.M. (1999) Gender differences in symptom presentation associated with coronary heart disease. American Journal of Cardiology 84, 396 399.
32. Munro B. (2005) Statistical Methods for Health Care Research, 5th edn. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 307.
33. O'Donnell S., Condell S. Begley C.M. (2004) Add women and stir: the biomedical approach to cardiac research. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing 3 (2 119 127.
34. Parker B. MacFarlane J. (1991) Identifying and helping battered pregnant women. Maternal Child Nursing 16, 161 164.
35. Parker B., McFarlane J., Soeken K., Silva C. Reel S. (1999) Testing an intervention to prevent further abuse to pregnant women. Research in Nursing & Health 22, 59 66.
36. Pearlin L.I. (1989) The sociological study of stress. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 30 (3 241 256.
37. Pearlin L.I., Menaghan E.G., Lieberman M.A. Mullan J.T. (1981) The stress process. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 22 (4 337 356.
38. Penque S., Halm M., Smith M., Deutsch J., Van Roekel M., McLaughlin L., Dzubay S., Doll N. Beahrs M. (1998) Women and coronary disease: relationship between descriptors of signs and symptoms and diagnostic and treatment course. American Journal of Critical Care 7 (3 175 182.
39. Plichta S.B. (2004) Intimate partner violence and physical consequences: policy and practice implications. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 19 (11 1296 1323.
40. Ratner P.A. (1993) The incidence of wife abuse and mental health status in abused wives in Edmonton, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Public Health 84, 246 249.
41. Resnick H.S., Acierno R. Kilpatrick D.G. (1997) Health impact of interpersonal violence 2: medical and mental health outcomes. Behavioral Medicine 23 (2 65 79.
42. Sharma A. (2006) Further analysis of the INTERHEART: what do the data tell clinicians? Medscape Cardiology 10 (1). Retrieved from http://www.medscape. com/viewarticle/520569 on 18 January 2009.
43. Statistics Canada (2006) Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey (CTUMS). Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON.
44. Tjaden P. Thoennes N. (2000) Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey. National Institute of Justice and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, DC.
45. Tjepkema M. Shields M. (2004) Nutrition: Findings from the Canadian Community Health Survey. Issue No. 1. Measured Obesity: Adult Obesity in Canada. Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON.
46. Vartianinen E., Seppälä T., Lillsunde P. Puska P. (2002) Validation of self-reported smoking by serum cotinine measurement in a community based study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 56, 167 170.
47. Wang Y. Wang Q.J. (2004) The prevalence of pre-hypertension and hypertension among US adults according to the New Joint National Committee Guidelines. Archives of Internal Medicine 164, 2126 2134.
48. World Health Organization (2004) The World Health Report, 2004: Changing History. WHO, Geneva.
49. World Health Organization (2005) WHO Multi-Country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence: Report of Initial Results on Prevalence, Health Outcomes and Women's Responses. WHO, Geneva.
50. Wuest J., Ford-Gilboe M., Merritt-Gray M. Berman H. (2003) Intrusion: the central problem for family health promotion among children and single mothers after leaving an abusive partner. Qualitative Health Research 13 (5 597 622.