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Psychosocial stress and cardiovascular risk: what is the role of daily experience?Thomas W Kamarck
University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Pers 73:1749-74. 2005....
Daily psychological demands are associated with 6-year progression of carotid artery atherosclerosis: the Pittsburgh Healthy Heart ProjectThomas W Kamarck
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 4403 Sennott Sq, 210 S Bouquet St, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Psychosom Med 74:432-9. 2012..We examine associations between the perception of ongoing psychological demands by ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and 6-year changes in carotid artery atherosclerosis by ultrasonography...- Cardiovascular reactivity to psychological challenge: conceptual and measurement considerationsThomas W Kamarck
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
Psychosom Med 65:9-21. 2003..Continued progress in understanding and measuring reactivity as an individual difference dimension is essential in helping us to evaluate emerging evidence examining the relationship between reactivity and disease risk... - Psychosocial demands and ambulatory blood pressure: a field assessment approachThomas W Kamarck
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 4501 Sennott Square, 210 South Bouquet Street, 15260, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Physiol Behav 77:699-704. 2002..These results support the possibility that psychosocial factors may account for some of the unique predictive value associated with ABP, and they support the value of these field assessment methods... 
Citalopram intervention for hostility: results of a randomized clinical trialThomas W Kamarck
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 77:174-88. 2009..04). The findings have implications for understanding the central nervous system correlates of hostility, its associations with other psychosocial risk factors for CVD, and, potentially, the design of effective interventions...- Experiences of demand and control during daily life are predictors of carotid atherosclerotic progression among healthy menThomas W Kamarck
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Health Psychol 26:324-32. 2007..They now present prospective findings on this relation... - Citalopram improves metabolic risk factors among high hostile adults: results of a placebo-controlled interventionThomas W Kamarck
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 4403 Sennott Square, 210 S Bouquet St, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
Psychoneuroendocrinology 36:1070-9. 2011..01). In addition, the changes in blood glucose were significantly mediated by treatment-related changes in hostility (p<.05). Mechanisms accounting for these associations remain to be explored... - Experiences of demand and control in daily life as correlates of subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in a healthy older sampleThomas W Kamarck
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Health Psychol 23:24-32. 2004..Previous findings linking job stress with cardiovascular disease may reflect the broader impact of daily psychological demands, not necessarily associated with the workplace... - Negative emotions and 3-year progression of subclinical atherosclerosisJesse C Stewart
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:225-33. 2007.... - Exaggerated blood pressure responses during mental stress are prospectively related to enhanced carotid atherosclerosis in middle-aged Finnish menJ Richard Jennings
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, E1329 WPIC, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Circulation 110:2198-203. 2004..These are the first prospective results on this relationship... - Validation of the Detroit Area Study Discrimination Scale in a community sample of older African American adults: the Pittsburgh healthy heart projectTeletia R Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Int J Behav Med 11:88-94. 2004..In contrast, Lifetime History of Discrimination, as measured by the DAS-DQ, was unrelated to global measures or daily experiences of stress. Thus, this study lends support to the construct validity of the DAS-DQ... - Is brachial artery flow-mediated dilation associated with negative affect?Laura L Schott
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 130 DeSoto Street, A546 Crabtree Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Int J Behav Med 16:241-7. 2009..Trait negative affect has been implicated as a risk marker for cardiovascular disease, but the mechanisms underlying this association are uncertain... - Low life purpose and high hostility are related to an attenuated decline in nocturnal blood pressureElizabeth J Mezick
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Health Psychol 29:196-204. 2010..We investigated whether positive and negative psychological attributes were associated with sleep-wake BP ratios and examined sleep parameters as potential mediators of these relationships... - Correspondence between laboratory and ambulatory measures of cardiovascular reactivity: a multilevel modeling approachThomas W Kamarck
Department of Psychology, Behavioral Medicine Research Group, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
Psychophysiology 40:675-83. 2003..This multilevel modeling approach may enhance our ability to detect the correspondence between laboratory and ambulatory measures of CVR, and to identify the circumstances under which it may be most clearly observed... - The incremental value of ambulatory blood pressure persists after controlling for methodological confounds: associations with carotid atherosclerosis in a healthy sampleThomas W Kamarck
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
J Hypertens 20:1535-41. 2002..Ambulatory blood pressure assessments have been shown to be associated with subclinical and clinical endpoints even after controlling for the effects of clinic blood pressure... - Application of ecological momentary assessment to the study of marital adjustment and social interactions during daily lifeDenise L Janicki
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Fam Psychol 20:168-72. 2006..Results underscore the merit of obtaining representative measures of social interactions during daily life for understanding influences on and consequences of MA... - Frequency of spousal interaction and 3-year progression of carotid artery intima medial thickness: the Pittsburgh Healthy Heart ProjectDenise L Janicki
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Psychosom Med 67:889-96. 2005..We employed Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) real-time recording in the natural setting to determine whether spousal interaction frequency predicts 3-year progression of carotid artery intima medial thickening (IMT)... - Hostility moderates the effects of social support and intimacy on blood pressure in daily social interactionsElizabeth J Vella
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04104, USA
Health Psychol 27:S155-62. 2008..This study sought to determine the role of hostility in moderating the effects of positive social interactions on ambulatory blood pressure (ABP)... - Social integration, social contacts, and blood pressure dipping in African-Americans and whitesWendy M Troxel
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Hypertens 28:265-71. 2010..However, scant research has examined whether social relationships influence key nocturnal pathways, such as nocturnal BP dipping... - Blood pressure dipping and sleep disturbance in African-American and Caucasian men and womenKaren A Matthews
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Hypertens 21:826-31. 2008..Elevated night time/daytime blood pressure (BP) ratios are associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. We evaluated the associations between sleep/awake BP ratios and sleep disturbances... - Depressive symptoms moderate the influence of hostility on serum interleukin-6 and C-reactive proteinJesse C Stewart
Department of Psychology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, 402 North Blackford Street, LD 100E, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Psychosom Med 70:197-204. 2008..In this report we examined the cross-sectional associations of depressive symptoms, hostility, and their interaction with circulating levels of two such inflammatory markers-interleukin-6 (IL-6) and C-reactive protein (CRP)... - Covariation of psychosocial characteristics associated with cardiovascular disease: genetic and environmental influencesDouglas A Raynor
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 405 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Psychosom Med 64:191-203; discussion 204-5. 2002.... - Reduced low-frequency heart rate variability relates to greater intimal-medial thickness of the carotid wall in two samplesClara Gautier
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Coron Artery Dis 18:97-104. 2007..We investigated the relationship between heart rate variability and preclinical carotid intima-media thickening, a putative index of atherosclerosis... - Cardiovascular reactivity to and recovery from psychological challenge as predictors of 3-year change in blood pressureJesse C Stewart
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Health Psychol 25:111-8. 2006..These findings suggest that the duration of stress-related cardiovascular responses may be important for predicting longitudinal changes in BP... - Hostility explains some of the discrepancy between daytime ambulatory and clinic blood pressuresDeborah E Polk
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Health Psychol 21:202-6. 2002..These results suggest that the addition of hostility to CBP may improve its predictive power... - Peer relationships and diabetes: retrospective and ecological momentary assessment approachesVicki S Helgeson
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Health Psychol 28:273-82. 2009..To examine the association of positive and negative aspects of friendship to psychological well-being, self-care behavior, and blood glucose control and to determine whether these relations were moderated by gender... - Intra-individual variability in sleep duration and fragmentation: associations with stressElizabeth J Mezick
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychology, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Psychoneuroendocrinology 34:1346-54. 2009..These results may have implications for both sleep and health research... - A prospective evaluation of the directionality of the depression-inflammation relationshipJesse C Stewart
Department of Psychology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Brain Behav Immun 23:936-44. 2009..Therefore, our results imply that depression may lead to inflammation and that inflammation may be one of the mechanisms through which depression contributes to cardiovascular risk... - Hostility now, depression later? Longitudinal associations among emotional risk factors for coronary artery diseaseJesse C Stewart
Department of Psychology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Ann Behav Med 39:258-66. 2010..We examined the longitudinal associations among measures of depressive symptoms and hostility/anger in a cohort of 296 healthy, older adults... - Napping, nighttime sleep, and cardiovascular risk factors in mid-life adultsJane F Owens
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Clin Sleep Med 6:330-5. 2010..To evaluate the relations between sleep characteristics and cardiovascular risk factors and napping behavior, and to assess whether daytime napping leads to subsequent better or worse sleep... - Influence of race and socioeconomic status on sleep: Pittsburgh SleepSCORE projectElizabeth J Mezick
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Psychosom Med 70:410-6. 2008..To examine the independent and interactive effects of race and socioeconomic status (SES) on objective indices and self-reports of sleep... - Depressive symptomatology and coronary heart disease in Type I diabetes mellitus: a study of possible mechanismsLeslie S Kinder
Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA
Health Psychol 21:542-52. 2002..Future research should clarify causal pathways between depressive symptomatology, behavioral and physiological processes, and CHD... - Cardiovascular reactivity and left ventricular mass: an integrative reviewTeletia R Taylor
Howard University Cancer Center, Washington, DC 20060, USA
Ann Behav Med 26:182-93. 2003..Additional sampling factors (e.g., race, gender) may also impact this relationship. Finally, greater attention is warranted to the role of the psychosocial environment, as this may interact with reactivity to influence LVM... - The association between racial identity and hypertension in African-American adults: elevated resting and ambulatory blood pressure as outcomesHayley S Thompson
Ruttenberg Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Ethn Dis 12:20-8. 2002....
Research Grants
- Psychosocial Stress Exposure: Real-Time and Structured Interview TechnologiesThomas Kamarck; Fiscal Year: 2007..RELEVANCE: In the presence of gene-environment interactions, reliable measures of environmental exposure, including exposure to psychosocial stress, are critical for quantifying the effects of genetic differences on health outcomes. ..
- BIOBEHAVIORAL FACTORS IN ATHEROSCLEROTIC PROGRESSIONThomas Kamarck; Fiscal Year: 2006....
- BIOBEHAVIORAL FACTORS IN ATHEROSCLEROTIC PROGRESSIONThomas Kamarck; Fiscal Year: 2002..These recent measurement innovations, as employed in the present study, should significantly enhance our current understanding of the role of behavioral processes in coronary heart disease risk. ..