Cardiac vagal control mediates the relation between past depression and blood pressure several years later among young adults

• Published in: Psychophysiology Vol. 57; no. 5; pp. e13535 - n/a
• Main Authors: Yang, Xiao, Daches, Shimrit, Yaroslavsky, Ilya, George, Charles J., Kovacs, Maria
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2020
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Arrhythmia; Blood pressure; Blood Pressure - physiology; cardiac vagal control; depression; Depressive Disorder - physiopathology; Disease Susceptibility; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Heart; Humans; Hypertension; Male; Mental depression; Parasympathetic Nervous System - physiopathology; respiratory sinus arrhythmia; Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia - physiology; Siblings; Vagus nerve; Young Adult; Young adults; blood pressure; depression; respiratory sinus arrhythmia; cardiac vagal control

Depression has been associated with high blood pressure (BP). However, the mechanisms of the relation between depression and high BP are unclear. We therefore examined whether impaired cardiac vagal control, indexed as low levels of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), serves as a route from...