Objective This study evaluated the prospective relationship between cardiovascular
reactivity to psychological stress and increases in resting blood pressure across a 3-year …

Objective: To examine cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between chronic life
stress, cardiovascular reactivity, and a marker of subclinical cardiovascular disease in a …

Objectives The goal of this study was to compare the cardiovascular responses to
behavioural stressors of three groups of adolescents who differed in blood pressure status …

Method To address this question, the cardiovascular responses to four acute laboratory
stressors of 150 children and adolescents were evaluated according to their self-reported …

We studied the relationships of cardiovascular reactivity during mental stress with left
ventricular mass index in a group of prepubertal children 8 to 10 years old and in a group of …

Background—A longstanding but controversial hypothesis is that individuals who exhibit
frequent, large increases in blood pressure (BP) during psychological stress are at risk for …

Individual differences in children's physiologic responses to environmental stressors may be
responsible for significant, but modest, associations found in past studies between stress …

BACKGROUND Studies in youth show an association between systolic blood pressure
(SBP) reactivity to acute psychological stress and carotid artery intima-media thickness …

This report evaluated (a) the temporal stability of hemodynamic responses to three tasks
using impedance cardiography, and (b) the influence of aging on stress responses in a multi …

We investigated the influences of Type A behavior, potential for hostility, and parental history
of diagnosed hypertension on adolescents' cardiovascular responses to three behavioral …