Response to Psychologic Stress in Persons Who Are Potentially Hypertensive
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Response to psychologic stress in persons who are potentially hypertensive.
College women who are prehypertensive and matched controls were exposed to emotion-provoking situations, psychologic tests, and psychiatric interviews. Patterns of response differentiating the groups were observed. The prehypertensives were less well controlled, more impulsive, more egocentric, and generally less adaptable in the stressful situations. In the psychiatric interviews, behavior sim...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 1953
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.7.6.874