Alexithymia, hypertension, and subclinical atherosclerosis in the general population.

  • Hans Joergen Grabe
  • Christian Schwahn
  • Sven Barnow
  • Carsten Spitzer
  • Ulrich John
  • Harald J Freyberger
  • Ulf Schminke
  • Stephan Felix
  • Henry Völzke

Abstract

As a personality trait, alexithymia is assumed to present a longstanding risk factor for emotional dysregulation that also affects the autonomic nervous system. Therefore, we hypothesize that alexithymia is associated with hypertension and carotid atherosclerosis in the general population.

Bibliografische Daten

OriginalspracheDeutsch
Aufsatznummer2
ISSN0022-3999
StatusVeröffentlicht - 2010
pubmed 20105696