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## Background: An impaired ability to experience and express emotions, known as alexithymia, has previously been associated with hypertension. alexithymia and related emotion-processing variables, however, have never been examined as a function of the type of hypertension, essential (eh) or secondary (sh). ## Methods: Our working hypothesis was that if dysregulated emotional processes play a key neurobiological role in eh, they would be less present in hypertension due to specific medical causes or sh. a total of 98 consecutive hypertensive patients (73 eh, 25 sh) with similar blood pressure levels completed two complementary measures of emotion processing: the 20-item toronto alexithymia scale (tas-20) and the levels of emotional awareness scale (leas). ## Results: After controlling for confounding variables, leas score was lower in eh than sh (estimated means: 46.4 vs. 52.0; p = 0.028; effect size 0.52). tas-20 scores did not differentiate eh from sh, but the differences were in the expected direction, with an effect size of 0.34 for tas-20 total score. neither psychometric measure was associated with the duration of hypertension or the presence of cardiovascular (cv) complicatio

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Author

S. M. Consoli; C. Lemogne; B. Roch; S. Laurent; P.-F. Plouin; R. D. Lane

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)