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Hostility Is Related to Blunted ß-Adrenergic Receptor Responsiveness Among Middle-Aged Women

Andrew Sherwood, PhD, Joel W. Hughes, PhD, Cynthia Kuhn, PhD and Alan L. Hinderliter, MD

From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (A.S., J.W.H.), Department of Pharmacology (C.K.), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; and Department of Medicine (A.L.H.) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.



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  		Figure 1. Cardiac (CD25: µg isoproterenol) and vascular (VD40: µg isoproterenol) ß-adrenergic receptor responsiveness for High and Low Hostile groups by median split on Ho scores. Note: The CD25 and VD40 indices are inversely related to ß-adrenergic receptor responsiveness.

 




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