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Major depressive disorder is associated with attenuated cardiovascular reactivity and impaired recovery among those free of cardiovascular disease

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Salomon, Kristen, Clift, April, Karlsdóttir, Mardís, Rottenberg, Jonathan·2009·Health Psychology

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OBJECTIVE: To examine cardiovascular reactivity and recovery to laboratory stress among a naturalistic sample of individuals diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD) and healthy control participants. Prospective evidence suggests that MDD confers risk for cardiovascular disease equal to or greater than the risk associated with depressed mood. Enhanced cardiovascular reactivity has been proposed as a mechanism explaining increased risk, but data are inconsistent as to whether depressed individuals exhibit enhanced or attenuated reactivity. Further, few studies have examined appraisal and recovery differences. DESIGN: Participants diagnosed with MDD (N = 25) and healthy control participants (N = 25) engaged in a cardiovascular reactivity protocol including 2 tasks, each followed by a brief recovery period. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Blood pressure, heart rate, pre-ejection period, cardiac output and total peripheral resistance were assessed. Appraisals of tasks were assessed prior to each task. RESULTS: Depressed participants exhibited significantly less systolic blood pressure, heart rate, and cardiac output reactivity during speech, less heart rate reactivity during mirror tracing, and less heart rate recovery after speech and mirror tracing than controls. Depressed participants appraised the tasks as more demanding, threatening, and stressful and reported being less able to cope than controls. Appraisals were related to heart rate reactivity, but appraisals did not mediate the relationship between depression group and reactivity. CONCLUSION: Impaired recovery rather than exaggerated cardiovascular reactivity may partially explain the increased prospective cardiovascular disease risk in depressed individuals.

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  • Salomon et al. found blunted sympathetic nervous system reactivity as indexed by lengthened pre-ejection period to a laboratory speech stressor task.

    “For example, Salomon et al. (2009Salomon et al. ( , 2013) ) found blunted sympathetic nervous system reactivity as indexed by lengthened pre-ejection period (PEP) to a laboratory speech stressor task”

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    The Results > Reactivity section (page unavailable) reports blunted responses to the speech task in depressed participants, but the significant differences were in blood pressure, heart rate, and cardiac output—not pre-ejection period (PEP). Method > Data Recording and Processing (page unavailable) confirms that PEP was measured; the paper does not report lengthened PEP as the index of the speech-task finding. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Salomon, K., Clift, A., Karlsdóttir, M., & Rottenberg, J.
Affiliations
University of South Florida (US)
Venue
Health Psychology
Published
2009
Volume
28
Issue
2
Pages
157-165
ISSN
  • 0278-6133 (ISSN-L)
  • 1930-7810
OpenAlex
W2035120573
Cited by
161
References
60
Citations by year
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FWCI
6.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • University of South Florida
  • National Institutes of Health (MH077669)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Keywords
major depressive disorder, cardiovascular reactivity, heart rate recovery, cardiovascular risk, stress appraisal, stress coping, blood pressure, cardiac output, systemic vascular resistance, pre-ejection period, speech stress, mirror tracing, laboratory stress
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Arousal, Cardiovascular Diseases, Major Depressive Disorder, Female, Hemodynamics, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics, Reference Values, Speech, Stress, Psychological, Young Adult

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