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The Effects of Effort-Reward Imbalance on Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Responses to Mental Stress

Mark Hamer, PhD, Emily Williams, MSc, MS, Raisa Vuonovirta, MSc, Pierluigi Giacobazzi, PhD, E. Leigh Gibson, PhD and Andrew Steptoe, DPhil

From the Psychobiology Group, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK (M.H., E.W., P.G., A.S.); Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK (R.V.); School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University, Surrey, UK (E.L.G.).


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  		Figure 1. The effect of effort-reward imbalance on systolic pressure (upper panel) and heart rate (lower panel) responses to speech and mirror tracing (MT) stressors.

 

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  		Figure 2. The effect of effort-reward imbalance on C-reactive protein and von Willebrand factor responses to mental stress. Values are mean ± SEM adjusted for age, BMI, and baseline levels.

 




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