A Study of the Relationship between Psychosomatic Disturbances and Blood Pressure Level under Stress
Abstract
What is the relationship between life stress and essential hyper- tension? One recent book (Wolf, Cardon, Shepard, & Wolff, 1955) con- cludes with the belief that life stress is the only etiologic factor which has consistently yielded to investigators evidence of its impor- tance in the pathogenic process that leads to essential hypertension. While it remains true that this evidence of the past fifty years is still unclear and ill-defined, it does seem that cardiovascular disease due to essential hypertension is on the increase in direct proportion to the quickening pace and stress of mid-twentieth century life. The stress and strain that ebbs and flows in every man's life has become a subject of intensive research and it begins to appear that psychic stress may well be a major cause of many human diseases.
Subject Area
Psychology|Physiological psychology
Recommended Citation
Carroll, David W, "A Study of the Relationship between Psychosomatic Disturbances and Blood Pressure Level under Stress" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28622588.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28622588
