Increased blood pressure reactions to acute mental stress are associated with 16-year cardiovascular disease mortality

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1444-1448

  Carroll, Douglas ^a   Ginty, Annie T ^a   Der, Geoff ^b   Hunt, Kate ^b   Benzeval, Michaela ^b   Phillips, Anna C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Cardiovascular disease mortality; Cardiovascular reactivity; Diastolic blood pressure; Systolic blood pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866352279     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01463.x     Document Type: Article

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