Violence Exposure, Catecholamine Excretion, and Blood Pressure Nondipping Status in African American Male Versus Female Adolescents
Dawn K. Wilson, PhD,
Wendy Kliewer, PhD,
Nicole Teasley, BS,
Laura Plybon, PhD and
Domenic A. Sica, MD
From the Prevention Research Center and Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior (D.K.W.), Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina; and the Psychology Department (W.K., L.P.) and Department of Medicine (N.T., D.A.S.), Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Hypertension, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

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Fig. 1. Interaction of hearing about violence and sex predicting daytime epinephrine (ng/min) levels.
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Fig. 2. Self-reported exposure of hearing about violence during the past year separated by sex and MBP dipping status.
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