Document Detail  Behavioral vs beta-blocker therapy in patients
with primary hypertension: effects on blood pressure, left
ventricular function and mass, and the pressor surge of social
stress anger. MedLine Citation: PMID:  3293408     Owner:  NLM
 Status:  MEDLINE     We compared the relative effects of
relaxation therapy, conventional hygienic techniques, and a
beta-receptor blocker, atenolol, on control of arterial
pressure, left ventricular mass, and diastolic function in
patients with mild primary hypertension. Furthermore, we related
these effects to baseline neural tone and its changes and
assessed the efficacy of relaxation or the pressor surge of
"social stress" anger. In group I left ventricular mass index
was related to both systolic and diastolic blood pressure (r =
0.46; p less than 0.05). Plasma norepinephrine was related to
age (r = 0.33; p less than 0.01). Slope was inversely related to
both plasma norepinephrine (r = -0.29; p less than 0.05) and age
(r = -0.31; p less than 0.05). Relaxati