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The Tension in Hypertension
Thomas A. Barringer III, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1997;6(1):50-51.
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THAT PSYCHOLOGICAL factors influence Physical health may be intuitively obvious to persons undergoing notable stress in their life. Reliance on intuitive assessment, however, can be seriously misleading, as any scientist can illustrate by numerous examples. Thus exists the imperative for valid scientific analysis. Furthermore, the specific psychological and social factors need to be determined and physiological mechanisms elucidated to implement the most effective therapies. Contributions to this endeavor are among the most exciting in medicine, and fortunately are growing at such a rate that the literature can be accommodated only by devoting entire journals and textbooks to the subject. Most of these studies are devoted to the association of psychosocial variables to immunological and neuroendocrine aberrations, manifesting in increased susceptibility to infections, cardiovas-cular diseases, and cancer.1-4
This month, the ARCHIVES publishes an excellent example of applying rigorous epidemiological and statistical methods to disclose a positive correlation of
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Author Affiliations
Department of Family Medicine Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, NC
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