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Are changes in reported mood associated with changes in blood pressure and total cholesterol over time?
Are changes in reported mood associated with changes in blood pressure and total cholesterol over time?
Changes in mood, specifically tense arousal and negative affect, are associated with concurrent changes in blood pressure, with some sex-specific differences in diastolic blood pressure.
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Mood-BP associations in this cohort should not yet change practice; leaves open causal effects and sex-specific intervention targets.
The authors investigated the within-person association of reported mood with blood pressure and total cholesterol (TC) levels, each assessed 4 times over an 18-month period in 128 men and 154 women. Change over time in tense arousal was significantly positively associated with changes over time in systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) but not TC. A change in hedonic tone was significantly associated with SBP (an increase in negative affect was associated with an increase in SBP) but not with DBP or TC. There were no sex differences in associations of mood with SBP or TC. However, increases in tense arousal and negative affect were significantly associated with an increase in DBP for women but not men.
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Pollard et al. (2003) studied this question.
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