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ArticlePsychosomatic medicine2020

Self-Rated Health and Age-Related Differences in Ambulatory Blood Pressure: The Mediating Role of Behavioral and Affective Factors.

Bert N Uchino, Wendy Birmingham, Joshua Landvatter, Sierra Cronan, Emily Scott, Timothy W Smith

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Article in Psychosomatic medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bert N UchinoFrom the Department of Psychology and Health Psychology Program (Uchino, Landvatter, Cronan, Scott, Smith), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Department of Psychology (Birmingham), Brigham Young University, Provo.
Wendy Birmingham
Joshua Landvatter
Sierra Cronan
Emily Scott
Timothy W Smith
Provo College · US

Funding

Understanding Relationship Ambivalence and its Links to Cardiovascular HealthR01HL137606 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI UCHINO, BERT N. · 2018 to 2020
$1.1M
Social Relationships and Cardiovascular Health: An Examination of MechanismsR01HL085106 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI UCHINO, BERT N. · 2007 to 2009
$1.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL085106NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL137606
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveDespite the well-established association between self-rated health (SRH) and health, little is known about the potential psychobiological mechanisms responsible for such links and if these associations differ by age. The main goals of this study were to investigate the links between SRH and ambulatory blood pressure (ABP), if age moderated the risk, and the health behavior/affective mechanisms responsible for such links.

methodsA total of 188 men and women (94 married couples; ages, 18-63 years) completed a standard measure of SRH and a 1-day ABP assessment. Multilevel models were run to examine whether SRH was associated with daily ABP and whether these links were moderated by age. The Monte Carlo method was used to construct confidence intervals for mediation analyses.

resultsResults indicated that poor SRH was associated with higher ambulatory systolic blood pressure (SBP; b = 3.14, SE = 0.68, p < .001) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP; b = 1.34, SE = 0.43, p = .002) levels. Age also moderated the links between SRH and ambulatory SBP (b = 0.19, SE = 0.08, p = .011) and DBP (b = 0.14, SE = 0.05, p = .004), with links being stronger in relatively older individuals. However, only daily life negative affect significantly mediated the age by SRH interaction for both ambulatory SBP and DBP.

conclusionsThese results highlight the potential psychobiological mechanisms linking SRH to longer-term health outcomes. Such work can inform basic theory in the area as well as intervention approaches that target such pathways.

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Diagnostic Self EvaluationHealth BehaviorAdolescentAdultBlood PressureBlood Pressure Monitoring, AmbulatoryFemaleHealth StatusHumansMaleMiddle AgedSpousesYoung Adult

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PMCPMC7196491
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