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The contribution of psychological features to the symptoms of treated hypertensive patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

C. J. Bulpitt ,
C. T. Dollery  and
B. I. Hoffbrand
C. J. Bulpitt*
Affiliation:
From the Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School; and Whittington Hospital, London
C. T. Dollery
Affiliation:
From the Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School; and Whittington Hospital, London
B. I. Hoffbrand
Affiliation:
From the Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School; and Whittington Hospital, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr C. J. Bulpitt, Department fo Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT.
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Synopsis

Twenty-seven symptoms of 859 treated hypertensive patients were evaluated using a self-administered questionnaire and correlated with the depression (DEP), free-floating anxiety (FFA), phobic anxiety (PHO), obsessionality (OBS) and extraversion (HYS) scores of the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire. The psychological features were associated with 24 of the 27 symptoms, and the extent to 1which these measurements determined the presence of a symptom was calculated. DEP and FFA were correlated with most of the symptoms, PHO with weak limbs, blurred vision, slow walking pace, nocturia and a lessened interest in sex. HYS was positively associated with the frequency of sexual intercourse in men and negatively with complaints of dyspnoea, tingling in the limbs and a slow walking pace. OBS was only associated with diarrhoea.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , November 1977 , pp. 661 - 665
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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