Chronic stress influences cardiovascular and neuroendocrine responses during acute stress and recovery, especially in men
Abstract
This study tests the influence of chronic stress on cardiovascular and neuroendocrine responses to and recovery from acute stressors and whether the effects are gender specific. Sixty-two healthy, middle-aged persons (50% women) performed mental-arithmetic and public-speaking tasks and relaxed thereafter for 1 hr while their cardiovascular and neuroendocrine function was measured. Participants with higher levels of chronic stress showed lower systolic blood pressure (SBP) and epinephrine (E; men only) and marginally lower levels of norepinephrine (NE) responses to the tasks and showed lower levels of cortisol and marginally lower NE responses during recovery. Relative to women, men had high diastolic blood pressure (DBP) responses to the tasks and high SBP, DBP, and E responses during recovery. Gender differences in cardiovascular disease in midlife may be due to gender differences in the inability to recover quickly, in addition to enhanced acute-stress response.
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Greater levels of chronic stress can dampen cardiovascular and neuroendocrine responses to acute stress.
“However, greater levels of chronic stress conversely can dampen cardiovascular and neuroendocrine responses to acute stress (Matthews et al., 2001).”
From More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science (2018) · cites this paper as Matthews et al., 2001
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- Authors
- Matthews, K. A., Gump, B. B., & Owens, J. F.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- State University of New York at Oswego (US)
- Venue
- Health Psychology
- Published
- 2001-11
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 403-410
- ISSN
- 0278-6133 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-7810
- OpenAlex
- W1971722415
- Cited by
- 148
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL65111, HL65112, P50HL065112, #HL07560, HL38712, P50HL065111)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Keywords
- chronic stress, acute stress, stress recovery, cardiovascular response, neuroendocrine response, blood pressure, epinephrine, norepinephrine, cortisol, gender differences, men, women, mental arithmetic, public speaking
- MeSH terms
- Acute Disease, Adult, Blood Pressure, Burnout, Professional, Chronic Disease, Epinephrine, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Job Satisfaction, Life Change Events, Male, Middle Aged, Norepinephrine, Occupational Diseases, Stress, Psychological, Reproducibility of Results, Recovery of Function
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