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Decades of psychosomatic research have failed to establish a convincing link between perceived emotional distress and hypertension, highlighting the need to explore repressed emotion and specific neurogenic phenotypes.
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Challenges focus on perceived stress in hypertension; leaves open repressed emotion and neurogenic phenotypes for targeted research.
The author argues that psychosomatic research in hypertension should abandon its traditional focus on conscious stress and instead investigate repressed emotions and targeted pharmacotherapy (e.g., combined alpha- and beta-blockade) for specific neurogenic hypertension phenotypes.
Samuel J. Mann (2012) conducted a review in Hypertension. Decades of psychosomatic research have failed to establish a convincing link between perceived emotional distress and hypertension, highlighting the need to explore repressed emotion and specific neurogenic phenotypes.
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