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Depressive symptoms are related to higher ambulatory blood pressure in people with a family history of hypertension.
Psychosomatic medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Grewen Karen M, Girdler Susan S, Hinderliter Alan, Light Kathleen C
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether parental history of hypertension (FH+) enhances the impact of depressed mood, indexed by Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), on ambulatory blood pressure (ABP). METHODS: Twenty-four-hour ABP, urinary norepinephrine (NE), and cortisol were obtained in 314 unmedicate...
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