Ambulatory Blood Pressure Reactivity as a Moderator in the Association Between Daily Life Psychosocial Stress and Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis

Psychosomatic Medicine
Thomas W KamarckStephen B Manuck

Abstract

We examined whether associations between daily psychosocial stressor exposures and carotid artery intima-medial thickness (IMT) may be stronger among those showing larger stress-related cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) during the course of daily living. A total of 474 healthy working adults (ages 30-54 years) collected ambulatory blood pressure and recorded their daily experiences, using electronic diaries, during two 2-day periods for a week. Measures of mean momentary task strain and social conflict were used as indices of stressor exposure, and partial regression coefficients linking momentary strain and conflict with ambulatory blood pressure fluctuations were used as measures of CVR. IMT was assessed in the carotid arteries using B-mode ultrasound. After covariate adjustment, associations between mean task strain exposure and IMT were significant among those high in CVR to strain (for systolic blood pressure, p = .006, for diastolic blood pressure, p = .011) but not among those low in strain CVR. Similarly, associations involving mean conflict exposure were significant among those high in CVR to social conflict (p < .001 for systolic blood pressure, p = .001 for diastolic blood pressure) but not among low social conflict re...Continue Reading

References

Sep 1, 1982·Arteriosclerosis : an Official Journal of the American Heart Association, Inc·J R KaplanD M Taub
Oct 1, 1994·Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health·P A LandsbergisJ E Schwartz
Nov 1, 1993·Circulation·D PerloffB Z Morgenstern
Dec 21, 2000·JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association·K Orth-GomérM A Mittleman
Jun 2, 2001·Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation·S A EversonJ T Salonen
Jan 30, 2003·Psychosomatic Medicine·Thomas W Kamarck, William R Lovallo
Feb 6, 2004·Health Psychology : Official Journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association·Thomas W KamarckDenise L Janicki
Jul 14, 2004·Annals of Behavioral Medicine : a Publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine·Linda C GalloLisa C Walt
Sep 27, 2005·Brain, Behavior, and Immunity·Lena BrydonAndrew Steptoe
Mar 30, 2006·Journal of Family Psychology : JFP : Journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)·Denise L JanickiChad J Gwaltney
May 16, 2007·Health Psychology : Official Journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association·Thomas W KamarckKim Sutton-Tyrrell
Oct 10, 2007·Archives of Internal Medicine·Roberto De VogliMichael Gideon Marmot
Dec 23, 2009·Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews·Alexander HänselRoland von Känel
Apr 14, 2010·Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise·Darcy L JohannsenGregory J Welk
Jun 2, 2010·Journal of the American College of Cardiology·Brent T MausbachIgor Grant
Dec 21, 2011·Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology·Timothy W SmithPaul Florsheim
Apr 5, 2012·Nature Reviews. Cardiology·Andrew Steptoe, Mika Kivimäki
Feb 12, 2013·Atherosclerosis·Stijn C H van den OordArend F L Schinkel
Apr 10, 2014·Epidemiology·Mika KivimäkiIchiro Kawachi
Jun 11, 2014·Psychosomatic Medicine·Nataria Tennille JosephStephen B Manuck
Jan 26, 2016·Psychosomatic Medicine·Neha A John-HendersonStephen B Manuck
Apr 21, 2017·Health Psychology : Official Journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association·Laurel M PetersonStephen B Manuck

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Cardiovascular Disease Pathophysiology

Cardiovascular disease involves several different processes that contribute to the pathological mechanism, including hyperglycemia, inflammation, atherosclerosis, hypertension and more. Vasculature stability plays a critical role in the development of the disease. Discover the latest research on cardiovascular disease pathophysiology here.