Year: 2003
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Anxiety is recently recognized as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the nation's leading cause of death.The most common measures of anxiety are trait anxiety (TA) and phobic anxiety (PA).However, anxiety and depression overlap significantly and TA does not adequately distinguish anxiety from depression (little is known about PA and depression).According to the tripartite model of anxiety and depression, physiological hyperarousal (PH) is a feature of anxiety that distinguishes anxiety from depression.The purpose of this study was to test whether PH was associated with cardiovascular reactivity (a risk factor for heart disease) and recovery.In addition, the association between TA, PA, and cardiovascular reactivity and recovery was also tested.Participants were 79 young (19.4 years ± 2.1 years), ethnically diverse (54% Caucasian, 28% African-American, 18% other) women.They completed self-report questionnaires for PH, TA, and PA, and underwent a laboratory stress protocol that included a video-taped speech task.During the protocol cardiovascular measures were continuously recorded.A series of repeated measures ANOVAs revealed that the speech task was effective in eliciting a significant change in all
Author: Julie A. Nelligan
Institution: The Ohio State University
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2527177899