Why the study?
Do psychosocial factors correlate with cardiovascular reactivity to anticipation of an exercise stress test in patients prior to cardiac rehabilitation?
Do psychosocial factors correlate with cardiovascular reactivity to anticipation of an exercise stress test in patients prior to cardiac rehabilitation?
Psychosocial factors such as anxiety and self-efficacy correlate differently with cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress in men versus women prior to cardiac rehabilitation.
Sex-specific associations of anxiety and self-efficacy with heart rate reactivity should not change practice; leaves open prospective validation in cardiac rehabilitation.
We examined social and psychological correlates of cardiovascular reactivity (CVR), or exaggerated heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) responses to mental stress, in 45 men (mean age = 60.1, SD = 9.9) and 17 women (mean age = 9.9, SD = 11.8) prior to cardiac rehabilitation. HR and BP increased from rest to anticipation, and women had higher resting and preexercise BP. Anxiety was positively related to HR reactivity. HR reactivity was negatively related to self‐efficacy in women and positively related to self‐efficacy in men. Men and women with more self‐efficacy had lower systolic blood pressure (SBP) reactivity, and anxiety was positively related to SBP reactivity in women. Results suggest that the relationship among psychosocial factors and CVR might differ among men and women.
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