Life events in hypertensive patients

Lal, Narottam; Ahuja, Ramesh C.; Madhukar,

doi:10.1016/0022-3999(82)90019-8

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“…Myers and Miles (1981) found that in a sample of low-income blacks, individuals with borderline hypertension (a part of them was treated for the disease) reported more negative life events than normotensive blacks. Lal, Ahuja, and Madhukar (1982) demonstrated corresponding results in India; treated hypertensives reported more negative life events than matched normotensives. Also Osti et al (1980) found more negative life events reported by hypertensive patients, compared with a control group of patients with other cardiovascular disorders.…”

Section: Life Stressorssupporting

confidence: 53%

Blood Pressure, Appraisal, and Coping With Stressors

Nyklı́ček¹,

Vingerhoets²,

Heck³

2000

Stress, Coping, and Cardiovascular Disease

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Section: Life Stressorssupporting

confidence: 53%

Blood Pressure, Appraisal, and Coping With Stressors

Nyklı́ček¹,

Vingerhoets²,

Heck³

2000

Stress, Coping, and Cardiovascular Disease

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“…The earliest studies reporting poor emotional processing within hypertension and/or elevated BP used self-report measures of the presence/level of negative emotional states such as anger, anxiety, stress and depression (Friedman & Bennet, 1977;James et al, 1986;Lal et al, 1982;Nyklíček, Vingerhoets, & Van Heck, 1996). These data generally showed associations with hypertension, with some inconsistent findings reported (e.g., Svensson & Theorell, 1983).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Long-standing research has implicated psychological factors in the aetiology and pathogenesis of hypertension (Rutledge & Hogan, 2002). While existing research has focused on links between elevated blood pressure (BP) and personality traits (Yan et al, 2003) and BP and negative mood states (James, Yee, Harshfield, Blank, & Pickering, 1986;Lal, Ahuja, & Madhukar, 1982), recent studies have demonstrated reduced processing of affective stimuli amongst individuals with elevated BP (albeit in the normotensive range; Elbert et al, 1988;Pury, McCubbin, Helfer, Galloway, & McMullen, 2004;McCubbin et al, 2011;McCubbin et al, 2013). Described as "emotional dampening," these findings have been used to inform (a) mechanisms within the central nervous system responsible for controlling BP during the initial stages of essential hypertension development (McCubbin et al, 2011), and (b)…”

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Assessing emotional processing difficulties in normotensive individuals with high and isolated blood pressure elevations

2017

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This study examined the effect of sense modality (auditory/visual) on emotional dampening (reduced responsiveness to emotions with elevation in blood pressure). Fifty-six normotensive participants were assessed on tasks requiring labelling and matching of emotions in faces and voices. Based on median split of systolic and diastolic blood pressures (SBP and DBP, respectively), participants were divided into low BP, high BP and isolated BP groups. On emotion-labelling tasks, analysis revealed reduced emotion recognition in the high BP than the low BP group. On emotion-matching tasks, reduced emotion recognition was noted in high and also isolated BP group as compared to low BP group for the task that required matching a visual target with one of the four auditory distractors. Our findings show for the first time that even isolated elevations in either SBP or DBP may result in emotional dampening. Furthermore, the study highlights that the emotional dampening effect generalises to explicit processing (labelling) of emotional information in both faces and voices-and that these effects tentatively occur during more pragmatic and covert (matching) emotion recognition processes too. These findings require replication in clinical hypertensives.

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“…Previous research has emphasized major life events as a measure of stress (Mueller, Edwards, & Yarvis, 1977;Vinokur & Selzer, 1975) and their impact on the occurrence of physical as well as psychological illness (Brown, Harris, & Peto, 1973;Jacobs, Prusoff, & Paykel, 1974;Lal, Ahuja, & Madhukar, 1982;Schwartz & Myers, 1977). However, Kanner and co-workers (Kanner, Coyne, Schaefer, & Lazarus, 1981) found that hassles and uplifts were better predictors of psychological symptoms than were major life events.…”

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Health and hassles in older and younger men

Ewedemi

Linn

1987

J. Clin. Psychol.

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This study compared hassles and uplifts in older and younger chronically ill men in regard to whether they perceived their health as good or poor (N = 50). Hassles are irritating and frustrating demands (minor stress) that characterize everyday transactions with the environment, such as losing things or being in traffic jams. Uplifts are positive events that could help counteract the effects of stress. Men in the study rated 40 potential hassles and 40 uplifts on 1 to 4 scales for the preceding month. These were compared by multivariate analysis of variance between older (age 65 and over) and younger (ages 45 through 64) men and between good vs. poor perceptions of health. Uplifts did not discriminate significantly between ages or health perceptions. In addition, hassles were similar between old and young; however, they differed significantly by good and poor assessments of health. Those who viewed their health as poor reported more hassles, mostly from events that were related to their physical health care. Because of the confounding effects with health in individuals who are already ill, hassles may not be good predictors of future health status, but they can help health professionals understand the kinds of demands that produce stress in management of diseases.

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Life events in hypertensive patients

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

Blood Pressure, Appraisal, and Coping With Stressors

Blood Pressure, Appraisal, and Coping With Stressors

Assessing emotional processing difficulties in normotensive individuals with high and isolated blood pressure elevations

Health and hassles in older and younger men

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