| Life events and hypertension--a negative finding. | |
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PMID: 8600608 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Thirty black Xhosa-speaking unskilled workers, aged between 28 and 59 years, completed three questionnaire measures of stress: Bluen and Odesnik's Township Life Events Scale, Weiman's Occupational Stress Scale and Melamed's Emotional Reactivity Scale. Other variables measured were age, systolic and diastolic blood pressure and body mass index (BMI). Stress levels on all the measures were particularly high in comparison with other groups studied with the same instruments. The well-known relationship between body mass and blood pressure was replicated. However, there was no correlation between blood pressure and any of the stress measures, even when variance in respect of age and body mass was partialled out. It is concluded that the pathways linking stressors to high blood pressure are complex and that caution must be exercised in claiming that there is a link between high levels of urban stress and high incidence of hypertension. |
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Authors:
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D Edwards |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde Volume: 85 ISSN: 0256-9574 ISO Abbreviation: S. Afr. Med. J. Publication Date: 1995 Dec |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1996-05-01 Completed Date: 1996-05-01 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0404520 Medline TA: S Afr Med J Country: SOUTH AFRICA |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1346-8 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Psychology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, E. Cape. |
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Adult African Americans* African Continental Ancestry Group Body Mass Index Female Humans Hypertension / ethnology*, etiology Life Change Events* Male Middle Aged Poverty South Africa / epidemiology |
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