Stress and hypertension examining the relation between psychological stress and high blood pressure /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larkin, Kevin T.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
Series:Current perspectives in psychology.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the case of Franklin
  • Regulation of blood pressure
  • Measurement of blood pressure
  • Models of stress
  • Stress and essential hypertension
  • Acute stress responses : how do environmental stressors lead to essential hypertension?
  • Individual differences and essential hypertension : constitutional and lifestyle factors
  • Individual differences and essential hypertension : psychological and social factors
  • Treatment and prevention of essential hypertension
  • Conclusions and future directions.