PMID: 3746901Aug 1, 1986Paper

Cross-family correlates of blood pressure in the Western Collaborative Group Study

Journal of Behavioral Medicine
D CarmelliR H Rosenman

Abstract

The present study examined the association between one spouse's characteristics and his/her partner's blood pressure (BP) and the combined effect of parental characteristics on the BP levels of offspring in a subgroup of families recruited from the Western Collaborative Group Study (WCGS). Among the individual personality characteristics examined were pace of activity, reflectiveness, dominance, and emotional stability as assessed by the Thurstone Temperament Schedule (TTS). The confounding effects of age, weight, and father's disease status were controlled for by multiple-regression techniques. The results indicate a differential pattern of cross-spouse and cross-family associations for parents and offspring in these families. Higher scores on the TTS activity scale were associated with increased levels of BP in males and decreased levels of BP in females. The observed associations were of the same magnitude as those of more traditional correlates such as age and weight. The findings from the cross-family association analyses are contrasted with the separate patterns of familial correlation of BP and personality characteristics.

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Jan 1, 1989·Journal of Psychosomatic Research·D CarmelliR R Williams
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