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

Conclusions: 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)
Source: Health Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research