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Cardiovascular Reactivity and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) provides an index of change from a resting level in some physiological parameter when the individual is exposed to...
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Work and Cardiovascular Diseases
Work and employment are important determinants of cardiovascular health. To date, the work-related burden of cardiovascular disease is attributed...
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Childhood Factors in Adult Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a chronic, age-related disease, whose development begins in childhood. To fully understand the lifespan development...
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Health Disparities and Cardiovascular Diseases
Disparities in cardiovascular disease risk and outcomes by race/ethnicity, age, sex, and social position are long-standing and well documented,...
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Environmental Toxicants and Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine
Exposure to environmental toxicants (e.g., lead, mercury) is widespread and now a part of the “normal” human condition. Recent research suggests the...
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The Biopsychosocial Perspective on Cardiovascular Disease
The biopsychosocial model originally formulated by George Engel provides an important theoretical framework for cardiovascular behavioral medicine....
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Social Support and Cardiovascular Disease
A growing body of research has demonstrated a strong and consistent association between lack of social support and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk,...
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Contexts and Cardiovascular Health
There is an urgency to understand the implications of context for cardiovascular health and more broadly the implications of trends such as...
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Acute Biopsychosocial Stress Responses in Mindfulness Meditators and Non-Meditators: The Mediating Role of Closeness
ObjectivesApplying the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat, the present research investigated the differential cognitive, affective,...
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Nicotine Dependence and Cardiovascular Diseases: Biobehavioral and Psychosocial Correlates
Tobacco use is the most preventable cause of premature death in the United States. Cigarette smoking increases the risk of coronary heart disease,...
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The Effect of Slow-Paced Breathing on Cardiovascular and Emotion Functions: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review
ObjectivesSlow-paced breathing entails voluntarily controlling one’s breathing rate to a frequency close to the oscillation frequency of the...
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Physical Activity/Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease
Epidemiological studies indicate a consistent association of physical activity (PA) with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), including...
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Aging Changes in Cardiovascular Structure and Function
With aging there is an increasing prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CV) which includes a group of diseases and disorders such coronary heart...
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Sleep as a Bio-behavioral Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease
Until recently, cardiovascular behavioral medicine research, including its conceptual models, measures, and clinical applications, had focused almost...
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Catecholamines and Catecholamine Receptors in Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine
Knowledge of catecholamine physiology and its integration into clinical research is of significant importance to behavioral medicine. Catecholamines...
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Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine: Past, Present, and Future
Associations between psychosocial factors and disease have been noted for more than two millennia. By the middle of the twentieth century, scientists...
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Socioeconomic Status and Cardiovascular Disease
Substantial research suggests that individuals with low socioeconomic status (SES) are at elevated risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity...
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Cardiovascular Disease and Cognitive Function
A multitude of cardiovascular (CV) diseases and their risk factors confer substantial increase in risk for poor clinical brain health outcomes,...
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Stress and the Development of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
The question of whether stress contributes to the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a central research question in the field of...
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Neuroimaging and the Study of Cardiovascular Stress Reactivity
Peripheral physiological reactions to acute stressors have long been studied in behavioral medicine research on physical health and well-being. The...