TY - JOUR
T1 - Relationship between personality and self-measured blood pressure value at home
T2 - The Ohasama study
AU - Hozawa, Atsushi
AU - Ohkubo, Takayoshi
AU - Tsuji, Ichiro
AU - Kikuya, Masahiro
AU - Matsubara, Mitsunobu
AU - Suzuki, Toshinobu
AU - Nagai, Kenichi
AU - Kitaoka, Hirofumi
AU - Arai, Yumiko
AU - Hosokawa, Toru
AU - Satoh, Hiroshi
AU - Hisamichi, Shigeru
AU - Imai, Yutaka
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - We conducted a cross-sectional community survey in northern Japan to assess the relationship between personality and home blood pressure value. The Japanese version of the short-form Eysenck personality questionnaire was used to assess personality. A total of 999 people selected from the general population participated. We showed that the personality extroversion score positively affected the systolic blood pressure value, whereas no significant relationship was observed between personality psychoticism or neuroticism and blood pressure value. This study is the first to clarify the relationship between personality assessed by the Eysenck personality questionnaire and blood pressure measured in a non-medical setting. When physicians investigate the pathogenesis of essential hypertension, they should take psychological factors into consideration, as well as the many environmental and genetic factors.
AB - We conducted a cross-sectional community survey in northern Japan to assess the relationship between personality and home blood pressure value. The Japanese version of the short-form Eysenck personality questionnaire was used to assess personality. A total of 999 people selected from the general population participated. We showed that the personality extroversion score positively affected the systolic blood pressure value, whereas no significant relationship was observed between personality psychoticism or neuroticism and blood pressure value. This study is the first to clarify the relationship between personality assessed by the Eysenck personality questionnaire and blood pressure measured in a non-medical setting. When physicians investigate the pathogenesis of essential hypertension, they should take psychological factors into consideration, as well as the many environmental and genetic factors.
KW - Community based study
KW - Extroversion
KW - Home blood pressure measurement
KW - Personality
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U2 - 10.1081/CEH-100108722
DO - 10.1081/CEH-100108722
M3 - Article
C2 - 11848165
AN - SCOPUS:0036169072
VL - 24
SP - 115
EP - 123
JO - Clinical and Experimental Hypertension
JF - Clinical and Experimental Hypertension
SN - 1064-1963
IS - 1-2
ER -