Why the study?
Do panic attacks cause acute changes in blood pressure and heart rate in normotensive patients with panic disorder?
Do panic attacks cause acute changes in blood pressure and heart rate in normotensive patients with panic disorder?
Normotensive patients with panic disorder experience transient, episodic hypertensive blood pressure and heart rate spikes during panic attacks, though their mean ambulatory blood pressure remains normal.
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Panic attack-associated BP and HR spikes may be missed in clinic; leaves open whether they confer excess cardiovascular risk.
William B. White (1987) studied this question.
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