Why the study?
Does mild hypertension alter blood pressure and left ventricular function responses to mental and cold-pressor stress compared to normotensive subjects?
Does mild hypertension alter blood pressure and left ventricular function responses to mental and cold-pressor stress compared to normotensive subjects?
Mild hypertension is associated with increased cardiac activation at rest but an attenuated blood pressure reactivity to mental stress, likely due to reduced stroke volume responsiveness related to structural changes.
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Attenuated BP reactivity to mental stress in mild hypertension should not change practice; leaves open mechanisms of reduced stroke volume responsiveness.
Lindvall et al. (1991) studied this question.
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