Why the study?
Does a family history of hypertension increase cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress in healthy normotensive males?
Population
49 healthy normotensive male subjects (n=30 in Experiment I, n=19 in Experiment II)
Comparison
Intensified standard mental stress test or… vs Subjects without a family history of hypertension
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Family history of hypertension associated with enhanced blood pressure and heart rate reactivity to intense mental stress; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Does a family history of hypertension increase cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress in healthy normotensive males?
Cardiovascular hyper-reactivity to mental stress in normotensive individuals with a family history of hypertension is unmasked by sufficiently intense stimuli.
Neus et al. (1985) studied this question.
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