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Life Events and Acute Cardiovascular Reactions to Mental Stress: A Cohort Study

From the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England (A.C.P., D.C., C.R.); and MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland (H.R., P.W.).

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. (A) Interactions between total life events and sex for systolic blood pressure reactivity. TLE, total life events. Separate regression lines are plotted for men and women. (B) Interactions between total undesirable life events and sex for diastolic blood pressure reactivity. TULE, total undesirable life events. Separate regression lines are plotted for men and women. , predicted reactivity.

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Interactions between personal life events and number of close friends for pulse rate reactivity. PLE, personal life events. Separate regression lines are plotted for the mean, high (+1 SD), and low (–1 SD) number of close friends. , predicted reactivity.