Age-related differences in ambulatory blood pressure during daily stress: Evidence for greater blood pressure reactivity with age
Age-related differences in ambulatory blood pressure during daily stress: Evidence for greater blood pressure reactivity with age
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DOI：
10.1037/0882-7974.21.2.231
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发表时间：
2006-06-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Skinner, Michelle
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作者：
Uchino, Bert N.;Berg, Cynthia A.;Skinner, Michelle
先前关于年龄和情绪的研究发现，老年人对压力刺激的生理调节可能比年轻人更好。然而，应激反应的文献表明，年龄与较高的心血管对实验室应激的反应有关（J. R. Jennings等，1997）。作者通过检查428名中老年人的每日动态血压，进一步调查了这些相互矛盾的发现。与年龄和反应性文献一致，相对年长的个体在处理日常压力源时，动态舒张压明显高于年轻人。然而，研究结果也显示，相对年长的人在日常压力下的负面情绪增加比年轻人少。这项研究的结果与年龄相关的心血管风险增加一致，但强调了压力与衰老过程的不同方面之间的复杂联系。
Prior research on age and emotions has found that older adults may show better physiological regulation to stressful stimuli than do younger adults. However, the stress reactivity literature has shown that age is associated with higher cardiovascular reactivity to laboratory stress (J. R. Jennings et al., 1997). The authors investigated these conflicting findings further by examining daily ambulatory blood pressure in 428 middle-aged to older adults. Consistent with the age and reactivity literature, relatively old individuals showed significantly greater increases in ambulatory diastolic blood pressure compared with younger individuals when dealing with daily stressors. However, results also revealed that relatively old individuals reported less of an increase in negative affect during daily stress compared with their younger counterparts. The results of this study are consistent with the age-related increase in cardiovascular risk but highlight the complex links between stress and different facets of the aging process.