Cardiac Autonomic Control Buffers Blood Pressure Variability Responses to Challenge: A Psychophysiologic Model of Coronary Artery Disease
R. P. Sloan, PhD,
P. A. Shapiro, MD,
E. Bagiella, PhD,
M. M. Myers, PhD and
J. M. Gorman, MD
From the Behavioral Medicine Program (R.P.S., E.B.), Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center; Division of Clinical Psychobiology, Department of Psychiatry (R.P.S., P.A.S., J.M.F.), Division of Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry (P.A.S.), and Division of Biostatistics (E.B.), School of Public Health, Columbia University; and New York State Psychiatric Institute (R.P.S., M.M.M., J.M.G.), New York, New York.

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Fig. 1. A proposed psychophysiological model of coronary artery disease and acute coronary syndromes.
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Fig. 2. Scatterplot of ambulatory systolic and diastolic blood pressure variability and resting SD of HR.
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Copyright © 1999 by the American Psychosomatic Society