October 27, 2011The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism164 citationsOpen Access
View Full PaperCortisol Responses to Mental Stress and Incident Hypertension in Healthy Men and Women
Structured PICO
Does cortisol reactivity to mental stress influence the risk of incident hypertension in healthy men and women?
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Population
Healthy men and women
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Intervention
Mental stress (assessing cortisol reactivity)
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Outcome
Incident hypertensionhard clinical
Cortisol reactivity to mental stress may serve as a mechanistic link between psychosocial stress and the development of hypertension.
Abstract
These data support the notion that cortisol reactivity, an index of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function, is one of the possible mechanisms through which psychosocial stress may influence the risk of hypertension.