Behavior Genetic Studies of Cardiovascular Responses to Stress
Abstract
Systematic research in the fields of cardiovascular psychophysiology, behavioral medicine, and psychosomatic medicine has revealed that there is considerable individual variation in psychophysiological responses to psychological stress (Manuck, Kasprowicz, Monroe, Larkin, & Kaplan, 1989; Obrist, 1981; Turner, 1989). While all individual difference phenomena are of intrinsic interest to behavioral scientists, variation in cardiovascular stress responses has attracted additional attention as a result of hypothesized links between large stress responses and the later development of cardiovascular disease (Blascovich & Katkin, 1993; Matthews et al., 1986; Manuck, 1994; Turner, Sherwood, & Light, 1992).
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Twin Pair Behavioral Medicine Ambulatory Blood Pressure Cardiovascular Response Heart Rate ResponsePreview
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