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Psychologic treatment for hypertension can be efficaciousWolfgang Linden
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Prev Cardiol 6:48-53. 2003....- Physiological stress reactivity and recovery: conceptual siblings separated at birth?W Linden
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Psychosom Res 42:117-35. 1997..Finally, options for sound design of recovery protocols, statistical processing of resulting data, and interpretation of findings are presented... - Individualized stress management for primary hypertension: a randomized trialW Linden
Psychology UBC 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4
Arch Intern Med 161:1071-80. 2001..To test the efficacy of individualized stress management for primary hypertension in a randomized clinical trial with the use of ambulatory blood pressure (BP) measures... - Psychological treatments in cardiac rehabilitation: review of rationales and outcomesW Linden
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Psychosom Res 48:443-54. 2000.... - Alexithymia, defensiveness and cardiovascular reactivity to stressW Linden
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Psychosom Res 41:575-83. 1996.... - Psychological risk factors may moderate pharmacological treatment effects among ischemic heart disease patients. Canadian Amlodipine/Atenolol in Silent Ischemia Study (CASIS) InvestigatorsT Rutledge
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Psychosom Med 61:834-41. 1999..However, less evidence is available concerning the role(s) psychological factors might play in the process of disease recovery... - Expectancy and type of activity: effects on pre-stress cardiovascular adaptationW Linden
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Biol Psychol 27:227-35. 1988..Implications of these findings for a more comprehensive understanding of the pre-stress adaptation phenomenon are discussed... - The psychology of men and women recovering from coronary artery bypass surgeryA H Con
St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Cardiopulm Rehabil 19:152-61. 1999..Psychosocial variables are known to impact recovery in positive and negative ways. Unfortunately, it is not clear what variables are the most effective predictors of recovery outcomes for men and women... - Psychological response styles and cardiovascular health: confound or independent risk factor?T Rutledge
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Health Psychol 19:441-51. 2000..Statistically controlling for response style effects within the psychological factors generally did not improve predictions. These findings argue against the conceptualization of response styles as stylistic confounds... - A case for the usefulness of laboratory social stressorsW Linden
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Ann Behav Med 20:310-6. 1998..Further issues of importance in understanding social stressors are gender differences and the vulnerability (i.e. weak reliability) of social stressor impact to relatively small changes in the experimental protocol itself... - Disease stage predicts post-diagnosis anxiety and depression only in some types of cancerA Vodermaier
1 Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Campus Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Br J Cancer 105:1814-7. 2011..Conclusion:As hypothesised, disease stage was directly associated with emotional distress, except for patients with breast cancer. Furthermore, age and gender moderated some of these effects... - Getting the most out of cardiac rehabilitation: a review of referral and adherence predictorsL Jackson
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Heart 91:10-4. 2005..Women were less often referred and participated less often even after referral. In conclusion, many of the observed predictors, including those particular to women, are potentially modifiable with the help of health professionals... - Defensiveness and 3-year blood pressure levels among young adults: the mediating effect of stress-reactivityThomas Rutledge
The University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ann Behav Med 25:34-40. 2003..Statistical mediation testing supported reactivity levels as an intervening mechanism between defensiveness and 3-year BP levels... - The efficacy of behavioral treatments for hypertensionWolfgang Linden
Psychology, The University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 31:51-63. 2006..There continues to be a scarcity of strong protocols that properly control for floor effects and potential measurement confounds... - Influence of apologies and trait hostility on recovery from angerJeremy C Anderson
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Behav Med 29:347-58. 2006..Apologies did not influence subjective anger ratings. It was concluded that apologies may accelerate cardiovascular anger recovery among those with hostile personality predispositions... - Predicting blood pressure and heart rate change with cardiovascular reactivity and recovery: results from 3-year and 10-year follow upJanine V Moseley
University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Psychosom Med 68:833-43. 2006.... - Avoidable pitfalls in behavioral medicine outcome researchWolfgang Linden
The University of British Columbia, Canada
Ann Behav Med 33:143-7. 2007..We suggest how these flaws can be avoided in the protocol design stage... - The relation between anger coping strategies, anger mood and somatic complaints in children and adolescentsAnne C Miers
Developmental Psychology, Leiden University, PO Box 9555, 2300 RB, Leiden, The Netherlands
J Abnorm Child Psychol 35:653-64. 2007..In addition, tentative support is given for a broader range of strategies to cope with anger than just the traditionally studied anger-out and anger-in styles... - Psychological treatment of cardiac patients: a meta-analysisWolfgang Linden
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Eur Heart J 28:2972-84. 2007..The mortality benefits appeared only in men even after controlling for age differences. The timing for the initiation of PT may be a critical mediating variable for mortality outcomes... - Does dissociation of emotional and physiological reactivity predict blood pressure change at 3- and 10-year follow-up?Anna Y Levin
The University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Biol Psychol 77:183-90. 2008..Dissociation between physiological arousal and emotional awareness does not appear to be an important variable in the identification of individuals at risk for later cardiovascular health problems... - Stress management: what is it?Lephuong Ong
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada VT 1Z4
J Psychosom Res 56:133-7. 2004..It is concluded that in outcome research, the term "stress management" is operationally defined with such variability that comparisons of SM outcome studies are not meaningful at this time... - Development and validation of a psychosocial screening instrument for cancerWolfgang Linden
Psychology Department, The University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Psychology UBC, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Health Qual Life Outcomes 3:54. 2005.... - The importance of examining blood pressure reactivity and recovery in anger provocation researchJeremy C Anderson
The University of British Columbia, Canada
Int J Psychophysiol 57:159-63. 2005..We investigated the moderating relationship of hostility on emotional and physiological arousal due to acute anger provocation; stress reactivity and recovery were measured... - Toward a causal model of cardiovascular responses to stress and the development of cardiovascular diseaseAmy R Schwartz
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Psychosom Med 65:22-35. 2003.... - Cardiovascular reactivity: status quo and a research agenda for the new millenniumWolfgang Linden
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Psychosom Med 65:5-8. 2003.... - There is more to anger coping than "in" or "out"Wolfgang Linden
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Emotion 3:12-29. 2003..Women reported use of a wider range of anger coping styles, especially more social support-seeking and more use of anger diffusion strategies than men... - Anger response styles and blood pressure: at least don't ruminate about it!Brenda E Hogan
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Ann Behav Med 27:38-49. 2004..The moderating influence of Rumination on Social Support Seeking varied between the genders. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, the results suggest that rumination is a critical moderating variable in the relation of anger and BP... - Type D personality is related to cardiovascular and neuroendocrine reactivity to acute stressMartine E Habra
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Psychosom Res 55:235-45. 2003..The relationship between Type D personality (the joint tendency towards negative affectivity [NA] and social inhibition [SI]) and laboratory indices of cardiovascular health was examined... - Patient navigation in cancer care: program delivery and research in British ColumbiaRichard Doll
University of British Columbia
Can Oncol Nurs J 13:193. 2003 - Curvilinear relationships of expressed anger and blood pressure in women but not in men: evidence from two samplesBrenda E Hogan
University of British Columbia, Canada
J Psychosom Res 59:97-102. 2005..The results support the value of exploring curvilinear relationships and gender differences in anger expression effects on cardiovascular health... - Social support interventions: do they work?Brenda E Hogan
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Clin Psychol Rev 22:383-442. 2002..Specific methodological and conceptual difficulties that plague this area of research and directions for future research are discussed... - Self-organizing neural network analyses of cardiac data in depressionMichael Gaetz
HeartLink Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Neuropsychobiology 49:30-7. 2004.... - The Extensive Lifestyle Management Intervention (ELMI) after cardiac rehabilitation: a 4-year randomized controlled trialScott A Lear
School of Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Am Heart J 152:333-9. 2006..We hypothesized that a modest risk factor and lifestyle management intervention after a CRP would significantly reduce overall cardiovascular risk using the Framingham risk score compared with usual care after 4 years... - High cognitive dietary restraint is associated with increased cortisol excretion in postmenopausal womenCandice A Rideout
Human Nutrition, The University of British Columbia, 2205 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:628-33. 2006..Although this was not associated with negative health effects in this sample, further investigation is warranted... - The effect of oral appliance therapy on blood pressure in patients with obstructive sleep apneaRyo Otsuka
Division of Orthodontics, Department of Oral Health Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Sleep Breath 10:29-36. 2006..9 (7.5) for MAP, while asleep. This study suggests that successful OSA treatment with an OA may also be beneficial to lower blood pressure in OSA patients, as previously suggested for nasal continuous positive airway pressure therapy... - A new potential marker for abnormal cardiac physiology in depressionGrant L Iverson
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Behav Med 28:507-11. 2005..8 times more likely to fall in the depressed group than the control group. Additional research is needed to determine if Pd2 is useful for identifying physiological markers of depression...