Research Article

State Anxiety Is Associated with Cardiovascular Reactivity in Young, Healthy African Americans

Table 2

Cardiovascular reactivity responses to cold pressor and anger recall.

Cold pressoraAnger recalla
Mean (SD)Mean (SD)
Median(Q1, Q3)Median(Q1, Q3)

ΔSBP17.0 (9.9)9.9 (8.8)
16.3 (11.3, 23.5)10.1 (3.4, 14.6)
4850
ΔDBP12.5 (7.8)6.4 (5.4)
12.0 (7.1, 18.3)5.8 (2.9, 10.6)
4850
ΔMAP12.2 (7.7)6.5 (5.2)
11.1 (6.2, 17.4)5.8 (2.9, 9.9)
4850
ΔHR6.7 (7.1)4.7 (5.8)
6.5 (2.1, 9.9)4.7 (0.8, 8.2)
4850

aAll values were significantly different from baseline ( ).