title: Relationship between personality and self-measured blood pressure value at home: the Ohasama study.
abstract: We conducted a cross-sectional community survey in northern Japan to assess the relationship between personality and home blood pressure value. The Japanese version of the short-form Eysenck personality questionnaire was used to assess personality. A total of 999 people selected from the general population participated. We showed that the personality extroversion score positively affected the systolic blood pressure value, whereas no significant relationship was observed between personality psychoticism or neuroticism and blood pressure value. This study is the first to clarify the relationship between personality assessed by the Eysenck personality questionnaire and blood pressure measured in a non-medical setting. When physicians investigate the pathogenesis of essential hypertension, they should take psychological factors into consideration, as well as the many environmental and genetic factors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan. hozawa@mail.cc.tohoku.ac.jp
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hozawa
authors.forename: Takayoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohkubo
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tsuji
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kikuya
authors.forename: Mitsunobu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsubara
authors.forename: Toshinobu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nagai
authors.forename: Hirofumi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kitaoka
authors.forename: Yumiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Arai
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hosokawa
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Satoh
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hisamichi
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Imai
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D012648:Self Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013599:Systole