Behavior Genetic Studies of Cardiovascular Responses to Stress

  • John K. Hewitt
  • J. Rick Turner
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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 Response 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • John K. Hewitt
    • 1
  • J. Rick Turner
    • 2
  1. 1.Institute for Behavioral GeneticsUniversity of Colorado at BoulderBoulderUSA
  2. 2.Departments of Pediatrics and Preventive MedicineUniversity of TennesseeMemphisUSA

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