Psychosocial, hemostatic, and inflammatory correlates of delayed poststress blood pressure recovery
Steptoe A, Marmot M
Psychosomatic medicine · 2006
What the research tells us
Delayed systolic pressure recovery was associated with social and psychological factors and delayed recovery in factor VIII and plasma viscosity, but not HRV. Recovery measures from different systems were not interchangeable.
Scope & interpretation
Observational associations cannot establish causation or prove that normalizing a reading changes disease risk.
Study at a glance
- POPULATION & SAMPLE
- 228 middle-aged men and women from the Whitehall Psychobiology study.
- EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT
- Color/word and mirror-tracing mental tasks.
- OUTCOMES
- Systolic pressure difference from baseline at recovery; psychosocial, haemostatic and inflammatory correlates.
- TIME FRAME
- Recovery pressure measured 40–45 minutes after stress.
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