Are exaggerated blood pressure responses during mental stress associated with enhanced carotid atherosclerosis in middle-aged Finnish men?
Exaggerated blood pressure responses to mental stress may serve as an independent risk marker for carotid atherosclerosis in middle-aged men.
The tendency to show exaggerated pressor responses to mental stress is a significant independent correlate of atherosclerosis in this population sample of Finnish men. The effect does not appear to be accounted for by the confounding influence of other risk factors or preexisting clinical disease.
Kamarck et al. (Tue,) studied this question.