Cardiovascular Stress Responses Predict Cardiovascular Functioning: A Four-Year Follow-Up

Exaggerated cardiovascular (CV) responsivity to stress has been proposed as a possible risk factor for the development of CV diseases including essential hypertension (EH)[for recent reviews see 1, 2]. Although not entirely consistent [e.g. 3], several longitudinal studies have found CV stress responses to be predictive of increased resting blood pressure (BP) levels and EH[4-7].