Cardiovascular and Neuroendocrine Responses to Challenge in Males and Females

Preliminary evidence from the literature on both Type A behavior pattern (TABP) and essential hypertension implicates the role of behaviorally induced sympathetically mediated cardiovascular and neuroendocrine responses to mildly challenging Stressors in the subsequent development of disease.

Abstract

Increasing attention has been given to the role that physiological response to behavioral challenges, i. e., Stressors, may play in the development of cardiovascular disease (see Matthews et al., 1986). Behavioral Stressors typically evoke notable cardiovascular and neuroendocrine responses. To date, preliminary evidence from the literature on both Type A behavior pattern (TABP) and essential hypertension implicates the role of behaviorally induced sympathetically mediated cardiovascular and neuroendocrine responses to mildly challenging Stressors in the subsequent development of disease (for a thorough review, see Krantz & Manuck, 1984).