The relationship between affective symptoms and hypertension-role of the labelling effect: the 1946 British birth cohort

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Valérie TikhonoffMarcus Richards

Abstract

To investigate the association between repeated measures of affective symptoms collected over 2 decades and hypertension (clinically ascertained or self-report); to test whether, among people with hypertension, affective symptoms are associated with awareness of hypertension, and to evaluate the longitudinal effects of the label of hypertension on affective symptoms. Multivariable logistic regression, accounting for confounders and mediators, were used to test the aforementioned associations in 1683 participants from a national British cohort. Weak evidence of a cumulative impact of affective symptoms across adulthood on self-reported hypertension at age 60-64 years was observed (OR 1.40 (95% CI 1.10 to 1.78) and 1.19 (0.79 to 1.80) for symptoms at 1-2 time points and at 3-4 time points vs no symptoms, respectively). Study members with affective symptoms in recent times were more likely to have self-reported hypertension at age 60-64 years than those without symptoms (OR 1.47 (1.10 to 1.96)). Similar results were observed for awareness of hypertension (OR 2.00 (1.30 to 3.06)). Conversely, no associations were found with clinically ascertained hypertension. The act of labelling someone as hypertensive at age 53 years was associa...Continue Reading

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Sep 11, 2016·Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine·Faisal F Syed, Hakan Oral
Feb 25, 2018·Hypertension Research : Official Journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension·Edoardo Casiglia, Valérie Tikhonoff
May 3, 2019·Quality of Life Research : an International Journal of Quality of Life Aspects of Treatment, Care and Rehabilitation·Chen QiuXiaoying Zang
Oct 16, 2019·European Journal of Preventive Cardiology·Valérie Tikhonoff, Edoardo Casiglia
Apr 8, 2021·Journal of Hypertension·Valérie Tikhonoff, Edoardo Casiglia

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