Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pickering, Thomas G.
• Gerin, William

Titel

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and cardiovascular reactivity testing for the evaluation of the role of psychosocial factors and prognosis in hypertensive patients

Ist Teil von

• The American heart journal, 1988-08, Vol.116 (2), p.665-672

Ort / Verlag

United States: Mosby, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

1988

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect (DFG Nationallizenzen)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article reviews the contributions of laboratory-based reactivity testing and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in the evaluation of the role of paychosocial factors in hypertension. Reactivity testing is ideally suited for evaluating individual differences in susceptibility to the acute effects of stressors but cannot resolve the question regarding whether stressors in everyday life contribute to a sustained elevation of pressure. Although several assoclations between increased reactivity and hypertension have been demonstrated, they do not necessarily imply a primary role for behavioral factors. Ambulatory monitoring is ideally suited for studying the effects of everyday stressors and has shown that blood pressure may increase as a result of occupational stress. On the grouns that hypertension results from an interaction of genetic and environmental factors, it is argued that both techniques have their place and that the role of psychosocial factors can best be demonstrated by prospective studies of persons exposed to different levels of stress.