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Do psychological stress tests (mental arithmetic task and mirror drawing test) induce hemodynamic and endocrinologic changes in patients with essential hypertension?
Do psychological stress tests (mental arithmetic task and mirror drawing test) induce hemodynamic and endocrinologic changes in patients with essential hypertension?
Psychological stress induced by mental arithmetic and mirror drawing tests significantly increases blood pressure and cardiac output in patients with essential hypertension, likely mediated by the sympathoadrenomedullary system.
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Acute mental stress provokes marked BP rises in essential hypertension; hypothesis-generating for prognostic utility and requires prospective validation.
Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi (1997) studied this question.
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