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Does cortisol reactivity to mental stress influence the risk of incident hypertension in healthy men and women?
Does cortisol reactivity to mental stress influence the risk of incident hypertension in healthy men and women?
Cortisol reactivity to mental stress may serve as a mechanistic link between psychosocial stress and the development of hypertension.
Cortisol reactivity may link stress to hypertension; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical relevance.
These data support the notion that cortisol reactivity, an index of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function, is one of the possible mechanisms through which psychosocial stress may influence the risk of hypertension.
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