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Ethnicity, gender, and age effects on adrenoceptors and physiological responses to emotional stress.

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Suarez, EC; Saab, PG; Llabre, MM; Kuhn, CM; Zimmerman, E
Published in: Psychophysiology
May 2004

We examined the unique and joint effects of ethnicity, gender, and age on cardiovascular and catecholamine responses to the anger recall interview, and beta(2)-adrenergic receptor density and function on peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Participants were 179 nonsmoking, normotensive men and women aged 18-49 years. All subjects showed similar blood pressure increases during the anger recall interview. Black men, however, showed the smallest increases in heart rate in conjunction with an attenuated peripheral vasodilatation. Black women and Whites showed similar increases in heart rate and peripheral vasodilatation. Increasing age was associated with greater norepinephrine increases to anger recall in Black males. Black men also exhibited higher epinephrine levels throughout the protocol, higher dissociation constant to (125)I-pindolol, and age-dependent increases in beta(2)-receptor density. Relative to Whites and Black females, arousal of negative affect in Black males led to a pattern of sympathetic nervous system activity that may help explain the higher prevalence of hypertension in this population.

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Psychophysiology

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ISSN

0048-5772

Publication Date

May 2004

Volume

41

Issue

3

Start / End Page

450 / 460

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • White People
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Sex Characteristics
  • Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-2
  • Receptors, Adrenergic
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Hemodynamics
  • Female
 

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Suarez, E. C., Saab, P. G., Llabre, M. M., Kuhn, C. M., & Zimmerman, E. (2004). Ethnicity, gender, and age effects on adrenoceptors and physiological responses to emotional stress. Psychophysiology, 41(3), 450–460. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.00161.x
Suarez, Edward C., Patrice G. Saab, Maria M. Llabre, Cynthia M. Kuhn, and Eugene Zimmerman. “Ethnicity, gender, and age effects on adrenoceptors and physiological responses to emotional stress.Psychophysiology 41, no. 3 (May 2004): 450–60. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.00161.x.
Suarez EC, Saab PG, Llabre MM, Kuhn CM, Zimmerman E. Ethnicity, gender, and age effects on adrenoceptors and physiological responses to emotional stress. Psychophysiology. 2004 May;41(3):450–60.
Suarez, Edward C., et al. “Ethnicity, gender, and age effects on adrenoceptors and physiological responses to emotional stress.Psychophysiology, vol. 41, no. 3, May 2004, pp. 450–60. Pubmed, doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.00161.x.
Suarez EC, Saab PG, Llabre MM, Kuhn CM, Zimmerman E. Ethnicity, gender, and age effects on adrenoceptors and physiological responses to emotional stress. Psychophysiology. 2004 May;41(3):450–460.
Journal cover image

Published In

Psychophysiology

DOI

ISSN

0048-5772

Publication Date

May 2004

Volume

41

Issue

3

Start / End Page

450 / 460

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • White People
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Sex Characteristics
  • Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-2
  • Receptors, Adrenergic
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Hemodynamics
  • Female