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Disease Associations
Hostility, distraction affect women's CV recovery from anger recall differently
January 20th, 2005
Hostility and distraction differentially affect women's cardiovascular recovery from anger recall, psychologists have learned. S.A. Neumann and colleagues, University of Pittsburgh, "investigated the relation of dispositional hostility to cardiovascular reactivity during an anger-recall task and of hostility and distraction to post-task recovery in 80 healthy women (ages 18-30). Half were randomly assigned to distraction during recovery." The researchers found that "hostility predicted slower systolic blood pressure and pre-ejection period during recovery. Distraction was related to faster cardiac recovery, higher high-frequency (HF) power, lower...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-20)
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