Life events in hypertensive patients.
A life event inventory was used to compare 54 Indian subjects suffering from essential hypertension with a normal control group matched on age, sex, and economic status. The hypertensive reported more life events than controls. Subjects' ratings of the degree of happiness or distress invoked by their life events revealed that the hypertensives had significantly greater mean distress ratings and significantly more number of distressing events. The latter relationship was particularly strong in males over the age of 45 years.
D000328:Adult; D004194:Disease / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000523:psychology*; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies