Chest pain is inversely associated with blood pressure during exercise among individuals being assessed for coronary heart disease

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作者
Ditto, Blaine
D'Antono, Bianca
Dupuis, Gilles
Burelle, Denis
机构
[1] Inst Cardiol Montreal, Montreal, PQ H1T 1C8, Canada
[2] McGill Univ, Dept Psychol, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[3] Univ Quebec, Dept Psychol, Montreal, PQ H3C 3P8, Canada
[4] Univ Montreal, Dept Psychiat, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
关键词
blood pressure; pain sensitivity; chest pain; angina;
D O I
10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00494.x
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Acute and chronic increases in blood pressure have been related to decreases in pain perception. This phenomenon has been studied primarily using acute experimental pain stimuli. To extend the literature to naturalistic pain and in particular the problem of silent cardiac ischemia, this study examined the relationship between blood pressure and chest pain during exercise stress testing. Nine hundred seven (425 men, 482 women) individuals undergoing exercise stress testing for diagnosis of possible myocardial ischemia completed the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) immediately afterward and other questionnaires before and after testing. Blood pressure was measured before, during, and after exercise. Systolic blood pressure at the end of exercise was inversely related to a number of measures of pain such as total score on the MPQ. The relationship could not be explained by individual differences in exercise duration, medication use, sex, or other measured variable. In sum, the inverse relationship between blood pressure and sensitivity to pain that has been observed in other populations in experimental and naturalistic conditions was observed for chest pain during exercise. Blood pressure may contribute to episodes of silent ischemia.
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页码:183 / 188
页数:6
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