Blood pressure and fibrinogen responses to mental stress as predictors of incident hypertension over an 8-Year period.

Background Heightened blood pressure (BP) responses to mental stress predict raised BP levels over subsequent years, but evidence for associations with incident hypertension is limited, and the significance of inflammatory responses is uncertain. Purpose We investigated the relationship between BP a...

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Main Authors:	Andrew Steptoe, Mika Kivimaki, Gordon Lowe, Ann Rumley, Mark Hamer
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Other education not elsewhere classified Other health sciences not elsewhere classified Stress reactivity Stress recovery Allostatic load Inflammation Education Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/22266
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