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Toward a causal model of cardiovascular responses to stress and the development of cardiovascular disease.
Psychosomatic medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Schwartz Amy R, Gerin William, Davidson Karina W, Pickering Thomas G, Brosschot Jos F, Thayer Julian F, Christenfeld Nicholas, Linden Wolfgang
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OBJECTIVE: Cardiovascular reactivity is hypothesized to mediate the relationship between stress and cardiovascular disease. We describe three considerations that are crucial for a causal model of cardiovascular responses to stress: the need for laboratory-life generalizability, the role of interactions between environmental exposures and individual response predispositions, and the importance of the duration of...
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