Psychological covariates of blood pressure among patients with hypertension and metabolic syndrome.

Agostino Brugnera Angelo Compare Stefano Omboni Andrea GrecoSilvia CarraraGiorgio Angelo Tasca Barbara Poletti Gianfranco Parati

Published in: Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (2022)

Our findings provide a deeper insight on the relationship between variability of psychological variables within individuals and their levels of blood pressure. The findings support the need for health services to implement evidence-based psychological interventions that can foster a better management of the hypertensive disease. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Keyphrases

blood pressure
metabolic syndrome
hypertensive patients
heart rate
sleep quality
blood glucose
emergency department
insulin resistance
type diabetes
adipose tissue
cardiovascular disease
skeletal muscle
patient reported