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Peer Review Status: Refereed
Title: Diminished heart rate reactivity to acute psychological stress is associated with enhanced carotid intima-media thickness through adverse health behaviors: Heart rate reactivity and intima-media thickness
Author(s): Ginty, Annie T
Williams, Sarah E
Jones, Alexander
Roseboom, Tessa J
Phillips, Anna C
Painter, Rebecca C
Carroll, Douglas
de Rooij, Susanne R
Contact Email: a.c.whittaker@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: Heart rate reactivity
Stress
Body mass index
Smoking
Intima‐media thickness
Issue Date: Jun-2016
Date Deposited: 19-Jul-2019
Citation: Ginty AT, Williams SE, Jones A, Roseboom TJ, Phillips AC, Painter RC, Carroll D & de Rooij SR (2016) Diminished heart rate reactivity to acute psychological stress is associated with enhanced carotid intima-media thickness through adverse health behaviors: Heart rate reactivity and intima-media thickness. Psychophysiology, 53 (6), pp. 769-775. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12640
Abstract: Recent evidence demonstrates that individuals with low heart rate (HR) reactions to acute psychological stress are more likely to be obese or smokers. Smoking and obesity are established risk factors for increased carotid intima‐media thickness (IMT). The aim of this study was to examine the potential pathways linking intima‐media thickness, smoking, body mass index (BMI), and HR stress reactivity. A total of 552 participants, 47.6% male, M (SD) age = 58.3 (0.94) years, were exposed to three psychological stress tasks (Stroop, mirror drawing, and speech) preceded by a resting baseline period; HR was recorded throughout. HR reactivity was calculated as the average response across the three tasks minus average baseline HR. Smoking status, BMI, and IMT were determined by trained personnel. Controlling for important covariates (e.g., socioeconomic status), structural equation modeling revealed that BMI and smoking mediated the negative relationship between HR reactivity and IMT. The hypothesized model demonstrated a good overall fit to the data, χ2(8) = 0.692, p = .403; CFI = 1.00; TLI = 1.00 SRMR = .01; RMSEA 
DOI Link: 10.1111/psyp.12640
Rights: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Ginty, A. T., Williams, S. E., Jones, A. , Roseboom, T. J., Phillips, A. C., Painter, R. C., Carroll, D. and de Rooij, S. R. (2016), Diminished heart rate reactivity to acute psychological stress is associated with enhanced carotid intima‐media thickness through adverse health behaviors. Psychophysiol, 53: 769-775, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12640. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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