BLOOD PRESSURE IN MENTAL DISORDERS

Disorders of Blood Pressure

Menopausal status influences ambulatory blood pressure levels and blood pressure changes during mental stress.

BACKGROUND Frequent and large cardiovascular and neuroendocrine responses to psychological stress are thought to enhance an individual's risk for cardiovascular diseases. Preliminary data suggest that levels of reproductive hormones affect the magnitude of stress responses, perhaps contributing to the protective effect of ovarian hormones on premenopausal women's rates of coronary heart disease...

Blood Cells Without Associated Neurologic and Mental Disorders

Following the observation of two fraternal patients without neurologic symptoms. but with hereditary methemoglobinemia due to cytochrome b5 reductase deficiency in erythrocytic and nonerythrocytic cells. a familial study of their paternal and maternal relatives was undertaken. Ferrihemoglobin reductase activities in erythrocytes from the two patients were found to be impaired. and cytochrome b5...

Heritability of blood pressure increases during mental stress.

We studied the influence of mental stress on the contributions of genes and environment to individual variation in systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure by structural equation modelling in 320 adolescent male and female twins. Blood pressure data were collected during rest and during a reaction time and a mental arithmetic task. Univariate analyses of SBP and DBP showed familial agg...

Mental Disorders