Elevated blood pressure and total peripheral resistance are associated with emotional dampening, suggesting a potential link between central nervous system emotion regulation and the development of hypertension.
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Hypothesis-generating for hemodynamic-emotion links in hypertension; should not yet change practice.
Elevated BP and TPR were associated with reduced perception of affect. TPR was the most consistent independent hemodynamic correlate of emotional dampening for the PAT scores. These results suggest potentially important links among central nervous system regulation of emotions, hemodynamic processes, and hypertension development.
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McCubbin et al. (2011) studied this question.
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