Anxiety and Hostility Are Associated With Reduced Baroreflex Sensitivity and Increased Beat-to-Beat Blood Pressure Variability
Psychosomatic MedicinePublished 1 September 2003
Raine Virtanen, Antti Jula, Jouko K. Salminen, Liisa‐Maria Voipio‐Pulkki, Hans Helenius, Tom Kuusela
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Anxiety and hostility are related to reduced BRS and increased low-frequency power of BPV, which reflects decreased parasympathetic outflow to the heart and may increase BPV through an increased sympathetic predominance.
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Anxiety and hostility are related to reduced BRS and increased low-frequency power of BPV. Reduced BRS reflects decreased parasympathetic outflow to the heart and may increase BPV through an increased sympathetic predominance.
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