Cardiovascular responses to emotional stress (quiz interview) in post-myocardial infarction patients and matched control subjects.
Cardiovascular responses to emotional stress (quiz interview) in post-myocardial infarction patients and matched control subjects.
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心肌梗塞后患者和匹配的对照受试者对情绪压力的心血管反应(测验访谈)。
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1980
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Robert S. Eliot
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M.P.H. Wesley E. Sime;J. C. Buell;Robert S. Eliot
In this investigation, 30 male post-myocardial infarction patients and 30 male control subjects matched according to age and occupation were given a 12-minute tape-recorded stress quiz described by Schiffer et al. Cardiovascular responses (electrocardiogram, heart rate, systolic, blood pressure, and diastolic blood pressure) to emotional stimuli were monitored in a laboratory setting at rest before the quiz and at two-minute intervals during the quiz. Heart rate and blood pressure values were significantly higher during the quiz than at rest for both patient and control groups. There was a significantly higher response for diastolic pressure and a significantly lower response for heart rate in the patient group compared with the control group. In the analysis for occupational status in the entire population, systolic pressure was significantly higher for the executives than for non-executives. Subgroup analyses of patients with angina, hypertension and/or ECG changes (N = 12) revealed a significantly higher diastolic pressure response than found in either the patients without these symptoms (N = 18) or in the controls (N = 30). In comparison to exercise test results, the emotional stress test (quiz) elicited somewhat more PVC's but less ST segment depression. These results support previous reports suggesting that emotional stress testing may be a valid tool in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease and in determining the physiological mechanisms which underlie the association between emotional stress and coronary heart disease.