Psychosocial stress and essential hypertension
Zhou, S.
Zhonghua Xin Xue Guan Bing Za Zhi 19(4): 211-3 267
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0253-3758 PMID: 1813283 Document Number: 385775
A case-control study of 72 pairs indicated that stress events in daily life stimulative factor might induce the development of hypertension in susceptible persons. The sustained stress of tension and anxiety and passive mood of psychodefence could be the psychological factors inducing hypertension. Personality, as a mediated variable, has an important influence on the initiation and progress of hypertension.