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Psychosomatic Medicine, Vol 48, Issue 6 430-436, Copyright © 1986 by American Psychosomatic Society

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Suppressed anger and blood pressure: the effects of race, sex, social class, obesity, and age

JE Dimsdale, C Pierce, D Schoenfeld, A Brown, R Zusman and R Graham

We studied 572 men and women who participated in a blood pressure screening program at a government unemployment office. Before having their blood pressures taken, the subjects completed a brief questionnaire that included two items measuring conflict over anger expression. Information was also obtained on obesity, race, sex, social class, and age. Across all subjects, systolic blood pressure was found to be significantly related to suppressed anger (p less than 0.016). Normotensive were twice as likely as hypertensives to be free of suppressed anger. This relationship remained after controlling for the covariates of age, social class, and obesity. The relationship between suppressed anger and systolic blood pressure was significant for white men, exhibited a trend in black men, and was not significant for women. In contrast to the systolic findings, suppressed anger was unrelated to diastolic pressure in all the analyses.


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