“…Blunted CVR to acute psychological stress has been associated with several unfavorable physical and mental health outcomes. The main focus of this article is clinical depression (e.g., de Rooij, 2013;Phillips, 2011;Salomon et al, 2013), but other outcomes include poor performance (Dixon et al, 2019), anxiety symptoms (Yuenyongchaiwat & Sheffield, 2017), low cognitive ability , eating disorders Koo-Loeb et al, 1998), obesity, poor self-reported health, poor lung function (de Rooij, 2013;Phillips, 2011), disability status (Phillips et al, 2011), smoking (Wiggert et al, 2016), study disengagement (Ginty et al, 2015), and type D personality (Kelly-Hughes et al, 2014). Given the chronicity of many of these outcomes, blunted CVR itself might be a chronic phenomenon in some cases.…”