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.
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.
Hamer et al. (Thu,) studied this question.