ReviewCurrent hypertension reports2015
Dysregulated Blood Pressure: Can Regulating Emotions Help?
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Resistant Hypertension: Detection, Evaluation, and Management: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2018Guideline
- Positive Health Beliefs and Blood Pressure Reduction in the DESERVE Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020Trial
- Clinical Associations and Possible Risk Factors for Affective Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Older Adults With and Without Cognitive Impairment.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Role of Psychological Health in Cardiovascular Health: A Racial Comparison.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prevalence, numbers and mortality risk of hypertensive patients with depressive symptom in China.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
- Self-Monitoring With Coping Skills and Lifestyle Education for Hypertension Control in Primary Care.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2024Article
- Coping and emotion regulation: A conceptual and measurement scoping review.Canadian psychology = Psychologie canadienne · 2024Article
- Sex Differences in the Relationship between Personal, Psychological and Biochemical Factors with Blood Pressure in a Healthy Adult Mexican Population: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Are coping strategies and variability in their use associated with lifespan?Journal of psychosomatic research · 2022Article
- Self-reported fraud victimization and objectively measured blood pressure: Sex differences in post-fraud cardiovascular health.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Article
- Multi-Ancestry Genome-wide Association Study Accounting for Gene-Psychosocial Factor Interactions Identifies Novel Loci for Blood Pressure Traits.HGG advances · 2021Article
- Does Compassion Predict Blood Pressure and Hypertension? The Modifying Role of Familial Risk for Hypertension.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2020Article
- Anxiety, Depression, and Colorectal Cancer Survival: Results from Two Prospective Cohorts.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Optimism and risk of incident hypertension: a target for primordial prevention.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2020Article
- Depression in type 1 diabetes and risk of dementia.Aging & mental health · 2019Article
- Characterizing Beliefs about Stroke and Walking for Exercise among Seniors from Four Racial/Ethnic Minority Communities.Journal of cross-cultural gerontology · 2018Article
- Positive Psychological Well-Being and Cardiovascular Disease: JACC Health Promotion Series.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2018Review
- Occupational class and risk of renal cell cancer.Health science reports · 2018Article
- Psychosocial Factors and Hypertension: A Review of the Literature.Cardiology clinics · 2017Review
- Cerebral Targeting of Acupuncture at Combined Acupoints in Treating Essential Hypertension: An Rs-fMRI Study and Curative Effect Evidence.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2016Article
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Abstract
Despite having identified key physiological and behavioral risk factors, the prevalence of hypertension continues to rise, affecting two thirds of American adults 60 years or older. An important condition in its own right, hypertension is also a leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases; thus, identifying additional modifiable determinants remains a public health priority. Psychological states and negative emotions more specifically have been proposed as risk factors, but the research findings are inconsistent. Additional prospective studies have recently been published increasing the availability of longitudinal data. The aim of this literature review is to evaluate these findings focusing on those from the last 3 years. We synthesize current research on whether negative (e.g., depression, anxiety) or positive (e.g., optimism) emotion-related factors are associated with high blood pressure onset. We discuss discrepant findings and propose considering emotion regulation as a novel approach to explain inconsistencies. Finally, we provide thoughts on future research directions.
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