Interactive effects of traits, states, and gender on cardiovascular reactivity during different situations

Burns, John W.

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“…This study, like others, notes the importance of anger or stressprovoking situations (e.g. Burns, 1995;Burns & Katkin, 1993;Suarez & Williams, 1990) to elicit the differential CVR responding, highlighting that repression effects are most apparent when social evaluative cues are pronounced (e.g. Newton & Contrada, 1992).…”

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Hostility and anger expression behavioral and cardiovascular responses to mental stress among cardiovascular disease patients

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2002

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Section: Hostility Assessmentsupporting

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Hostility and anger expression behavioral and cardiovascular responses to mental stress among cardiovascular disease patients

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“…Similarly, psychosocial and developmental issues may also be responsible for the observed gender difference on the relationship between age and family history. For example, Burns (1995) demonstrated gender differences in cardiovascular reactivity on traits such as anger and anxiety. This gender difference on psychological attributes may contribute to the gender difference on the interaction between family history and age.…”

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The effects of age, gender, and family history on blood pressure of normotensive college students

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Offspring with a parental history of hypertension are, by some estimates, four times more likely to develop the disease (Corvol et al., 1992). While some studies suggest that an increased risk is observable in eight year old children, others suggest that the increased risk does not become apparent until age 20. This study examined this discrepancy by screening resting blood pressures from 403 young adults. After adjusting for body mass, a significant family history x age x gender interaction (p < .01) suggests that the effect of family history on systolic blood pressure varies by age and gender. The influence of positive family history becomes apparent in males by age 20 and in females by age 22. This relationship may help provide a rationale for interpretation and reconciliation of disparate results in the literature, and clarify our understanding of the etiologic mechanisms responsible for development of essential hypertension.

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“…For example, pain catastrophizing is associated with elevated negative affect (Hirsh et al 2007), which in turn is often associated with heightened cardiovascular stress reactivity (Burns 1995;Feldman et al 1999;Kamarck et al 1998;Prkachin et al 1999). Prior work indicates that elevations in systolic blood pressure trigger endogenous analgesic mechanisms through functional links between the cardiovascular and pain regulatory systems (e.g., Bruehl and Chung 2004;Edwards et al 2001Edwards et al , 2003Ghione 1996;Rau and Elbert 2001).…”

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Pain catastrophizing, physiological indexes, and chronic pain severity: tests of mediation and moderation models

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Catastrophizing about pain is related to elevated pain severity and poor adjustment among chronic pain patients, but few physiological mechanisms by which pain catastrophizing maintains and exacerbates pain have been explored. We hypothesized that resting levels of lower paraspinal muscle tension and/or lower paraspinal and cardiovascular reactivity to emotional arousal may: (a) mediate links between pain catastrophizing and chronic pain intensity; (b) moderate these links such that only patients described by certain combinations of pain catastrophizing and physiological indexes would report pronounced chronic pain. Chronic low back pain patients (N = 97) participated in anger recall and sadness recall interviews while lower paraspinal and trapezius EMG and systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and heart rate (HR) were recorded. Mediation models were not supported. However, pain catastrophizing significantly interacted with resting lower paraspinal muscle tension to predict pain severity such that high catastrophizers with high resting lower paraspinal tension reported the greatest pain. Pain catastrophizing also interacted with SBP, DBP and HR reactivity to affect pain such that high catastrophizers who showed low cardiovascular reactivity to the interviews reported the greatest pain. Results support a multi-variable profile approach to identifying pain catastrophizers at © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007 john.burns@rosalindfranklin.edu. NIH Public Access NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript greatest risk for pain severity by virtue of resting muscle tension and cardiovascular stress function. KeywordsPain catastrophizing; Chronic pain severity; Lower paraspinal muscle tension; Cardiovascular reactivity; Profile approachCatastrophizing about pain is linked to elevated pain severity and poor adjustment among chronic pain patients (Sullivan et al. 1995). It is defined as a tendency to rumi-nate, magnify and feel helpless about pain (Sullivan et al. 1995), and as a negative automatic appraisal of painful stimuli rooted in activation of maladaptive beliefs or pain schemas (Michael and Burns 2004;Spanos et al. 1979;Sullivan et al. 2001). Irrespective of theoretical conceptualization, only a few physiological mechanisms by which pain catastrophizing maintains and exacerbates chronic pain intensity have been explored (e.g., Edwards and Fillingim 2005).Physical and psychological stress may lead to frequent and intense, or low level but sustained muscular contractions (Sjegaard et al. 2000). This muscle activity can increase pain through ischemia and hypoxia (Fields 1987), and through changes in mechanoreceptor sensitivity (Mense 1993). Flor and colleagues (Flor et al. 1985(Flor et al. , 1991(Flor et al. , 1992 proposed a "symptom-specificity" model of chronic pain, which proposes that patients with certain kinds of musculoskeletal disorders can be distinguished from patients with other kinds of musculoskeletal disorders by substantial stres...

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Interactive effects of traits, states, and gender on cardiovascular reactivity during different situations

Cited by 53 publications

References 50 publications

Hostility and anger expression behavioral and cardiovascular responses to mental stress among cardiovascular disease patients

Hostility and anger expression behavioral and cardiovascular responses to mental stress among cardiovascular disease patients

The effects of age, gender, and family history on blood pressure of normotensive college students

Pain catastrophizing, physiological indexes, and chronic pain severity: tests of mediation and moderation models

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