Pulse rate reactivity in childhood as a risk factor for adult hypertension: the 1970 Birth Cohort Study

Purpose: Cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress has been used as a tool to predict short-term hypertension risk in adults but the impact of cardiovascular reactivity in childhood on hypertension in adulthood is unknown. Using the 1970 British Cohort study, we examined the association between pul...

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Main Authors: Mark Hamer, Mika Kivimaki, G. David Batty
Format: Default Article
Published: 2016
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Other health sciences not elsewhere classified
Psychophysiology
Pulse rate
Stress
Epidemiology
Birth cohort
Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/21692
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