The role of anxiety and emotional stress as a risk factor in treatment-resistant hypertension

Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 129-131

  Greenage, Michael ^a   Kulaksizoglu, Burak ^b   Cilingiroglu, Mehmet ^c   Ali, Rizwan ^a,d,e  

^a VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Antalya Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^c NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorder; Emotional stress; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; PANIC; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT SURVEY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; ROLE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 79955914330     PISSN: 15233804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11883-010-0154-z     Document Type: Short Survey

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