PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC MECHANISMS IN HYPERTENSIVE VASCULAR DISEASE
Authors: A P SHAPIRO
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1960)

Article1 July 1960PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC MECHANISMS IN HYPERTENSIVE VASCULAR DISEASEALVIN P. SHAPIRO, M.D.ALVIN P. SHAPIRO, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-53-1-64 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn few somatic disorders is the potent impact of emotional stimuli more generally appreciated than in hypertensive vascular disease. Terms such as psychogenic hypertension, neurogenic hypertension, hypertensive personality, vascular stress, repressed hostility and autonomic nervous system lability have developed and are employed commonly. Yet precisely what these terms mean, what the qualitative and quantitative relationships of the emotions to blood pressure are, and what significant contributions to understanding the basic mechanisms of hypertension are made by the study of psychological forces, comprise questions which have not been answered in any systematic fashion. It is little wonder, therefore, that most investigators...Bibliography1. AlbertMoritaIseri DGFLT: Serum magnesium and plasma sodium levels in essential vascular hypertension, Circulation 17: 761, 1958. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Alexander F: Psychosomatic Medicine, 1950, W. W. Norton and Co., New York. Google Scholar3. Alexander F: Emotional factors in essential hypertension, Psychosom. Med. 1: 173, 1939. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. BelkinShapiro GAAP: Behavioral disturbances in animals. Effect on blood pressure, pepsinogen, and adrenal weight in rats, Texas Rep. Biol. and Med. 14: 415, 1956. MedlineGoogle Scholar5. 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