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CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS - Coggle Diagram
CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
CVDs
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examples: coronary heart disease (CHD), hypertension (high BP), strokes, artherosclerosis (the narrowing and hardening of arteries due to deposits of plaque).
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Williams et al. 2000
Procedure:
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approx. 13,000 people completed a 10-question anger scale eg. levels of hot-headedness
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findings
those who had achieved the highest scores on the anger scale were over 2 1/2 times more likely to have had a heart attack than those with the lowest anger ratings
ppt with a moderate score were 36% more likely to experience a coronary event than those with a lower rating
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conclusion: this research suggests that sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity is closely related to CVDs
weakness
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difficult to establish a cause-effect relationship, between stress and CVDs
other factors, such as indirect factors of stress (smoking, bad diet) could influence the development of a CVDs not just anger levels.
strength
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one group was operationalised as high stress (GPs and anaesthetists) and another group was operationalised as low stress (pathologists and dermatologists)
that those in high stress occupations (GPs) were more likely to develop heart disease than those in the low stress occupations (dermatologists).