Research links between psychiatry and cardiology. Hypertension, type A behavior, sudden death, and the physiology of emotional arousal.
Psychiatrists and cardiologists have collaborated in clinical care and research for decades. This article reviews some of the current areas of mutual interest, with special attention focused on research on behavior and hypertension, type A behavior pattern, sudden death, and the physiology of emotional arousal. In clinical care and epidemiologic and physiologic research, there are numerous issues at the cutting edge of knowledge that will be clarified by continued collaboration.
D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology*; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000523:psychology*; D011603:Psychophysiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D014434:Type A Personality