Psychiatric morbidity and hostility in hypertension
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 7 (4), 653-659
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700006309
Abstract
Synopsis In a large survey of subjects aged between 35 and 64, no difference was detected in the amount of psychiatric morbidity, determined by response to the General Health Questionnaire, between those with hypertension and those with normal pressure. This finding also obtained if only those subjects ignorant of their own blood pressure level were considered for the same comparison. As a result of administration of a standardized psychiatric interview and a hostility questionnaire to 108 hypertensive and normotensive subjects of a special study, differences in the expression of hostility were demonstrated between the 2 groups. Subjects with hypertension appear to demonstrate more hostility and be less self-critical than a normotensive group. This finding could reflect the effect of recent diagnosis and treatment of hypertension or be associated with the hypertensive state itself.Keywords
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