Blood Pressure and Fibrinogen Responses to Mental Stress as Predictors of Incident Hypertension over an 8-Year Period
Steptoe A, Kivimäki M, Lowe G, Rumley A, Hamer M
Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2016
What the research tells us
Highest versus lowest recovery-period systolic pressure tertile was associated with incident hypertension: adjusted OR 2.06 (95% CI 1.19–3.57). This is a specific prospective association, not a personal recovery cutoff.
Scope & interpretation
Non-randomized exposure, residual confounding and a selected cohort limit causal interpretation. OR is not a direct ratio of individual probabilities. Baseline pressure was included among adjustments.
Study at a glance
- POPULATION & SAMPLE
- 636 Whitehall II participants without hypertension or cardiovascular disease at baseline; mean age 59.1.
- EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT
- Blood-pressure and fibrinogen responses to standardized mental tasks.
- OUTCOMES
- Incident hypertension defined by clinic readings and medication status.
- TIME FRAME
- Average eight-year follow-up.
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- Study funding
- British Heart Foundation RG/10/005/28296, as indexed in the publication declaration.
- Competing interests
- Not yet verified against the full text.
Project support
Founded and supported by Resilio.
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