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Aging or disease?
— cardiovascular reactivity in Finnish men over the middle years | | Author(s) | J Richard Jennings, Thomas Kamarck, Stephen Manuck |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 2, June 1997 |
| Pages | pp 225-238 |
| Keywords | Cardiovascular diseases ; Cardiovascular systems ; Mental health [elderly] ; Middle aged ; Elder abuse ; Ageing process ; Hypertension ; Screening ; Finland. |
| Annotation | This study asks whether cardiovascular responses to psychological challenge changes with age, and whether such changes are intrinsic to ageing, or could be attributed to the influences of disease and medications. 902 Finnish men ranging in age from 46 to 64 years who participated in the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study were given 4 tasks inducing cardiovascular responses. Current disease status, age, and medication use were entered into hierarchical regression analyses to assess their relation with measures of cardiovascular reactivity. Age and hypertension contributed independent, approximately equal, but small amounts of variance in the cardiac and vascular reactivity indexes. Medication also influenced reactivity independently of age and disease. Performance on the tasks were more consistently altered by age than other factors. Cardiac and vascular reactivity increased with increasing age and the presence of hypertension. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120252 A |
| Classmark | CQ: BKK: D: SE: QNT: BG: CQQ: 3V: 76L |
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