Hypertension and psychological distress

Meyer, Eugene; Derogatis, Leonard R.; Miller, Mona; Reading, Anthony

doi:10.1016/s0033-3182(78)71007-8

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“…This dimension focuses on feelings of personal inadequacy and inferi ority, particularly in comparison to other persons (6). Our data confirm previous findings using a different version of SCL (4) published in literature (13,20).…”

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confidence: 92%

Stress and Distress in Essential Hypertension

Osti¹,

Trombini²,

Magnani³

1980

Psychother Psychosom

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A consecutive unselected series of 20 outpatients suffering from essential hypertension is included in this study. These patients were compared to a control group of 20 patients other than hypertensives, matched for age, sex, marital status, years of schooling, social class and duration of illness. Stressful life events prior to illness onset, psychological distress as measured by SCL-90, and alexithymia were investigated. Patients with hypertension were exposed to undesirable life events before disease onset and exhibited alexithymic traits significantly more than the control group.

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confidence: 92%

Stress and Distress in Essential Hypertension

Osti¹,

Trombini²,

Magnani³

1980

Psychother Psychosom

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“…Some studies suggest a positive relationship between psychological vari ables such as suppressed anger and hypertension (22,24 negative correlation between anxiety and hypertension (82). Mild hyperten sives did not differ from normotensives on anger, anxiety, hostility, Type A behavior, or other psychological measures in the New York City blood pressure study (100).…”

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Job Strain and Cardiovascular Disease

Schnall¹,

Landsbergis²,

Baker³

1994

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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375

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“…Among these are high arousability, anxiety, and nervousness (Smith, 1972;Weyer & Hodapp, 1979), greater tendency to suppress anger in response to legitimate provocation (Gentry, Chesney, Gary, Hall, & Harburg, 1982), greater tendency to have an external locus of control and to experience higher levels of discontentment (Naditch, 1973), and a tendency to deny arousal and tension (Meyer, Derogatis, Miller, & Reading, 1978;Singer, 1967;Thomas, 1961).…”

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Life Stress, Health, and Blood Pressure in Black College Students

Myers

Bastien

Miles³

1983

Journal of Black Psychology

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A multivariate stress and health risk model is proposed to test the contribution of stress on blood pressure in Black college students. Measures of stress reaction pattern, level of stress exposure, personal level of distress, the availability of social supports, personal and family health history, and health status were obtained from a sample of 191 Black university students. Multiple regression analyses predicting systolic and diastolic blood pressure overall and by gender supported the hypothesis that stress interacts with prior familial health history, personal health status, and level of subjective distress to predict blood pressure. Stress affected health and blood pressure differently for Black males and females.

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Hypertension and psychological distress

Cited by 22 publications

References 12 publications

Stress and Distress in Essential Hypertension

Stress and Distress in Essential Hypertension

Job Strain and Cardiovascular Disease

Life Stress, Health, and Blood Pressure in Black College Students

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