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Health Psychology, 5 th edition Shelley E. Taylor

Health Psychology, 5 th edition Shelley E. Taylor. Chapter Thirteen Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD): Overview. #1 Killer in the U.S. Accounts for 40% of all deaths A disease of modernization Alterations in diet Alterations in activity level

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Health Psychology, 5 th edition Shelley E. Taylor

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  1. Health Psychology, 5th editionShelley E. Taylor Chapter Thirteen Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  2. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD): Overview • #1 Killer in the U.S. • Accounts for 40% of all deaths • A disease of modernization • Alterations in diet • Alterations in activity level • CHD is also a major chronic disease • Millions of Americans live with its symptoms Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  3. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD): What IS CHD? • A general term referring to illnesses caused by atherosclerosis, • which is the narrowing of the coronary arteries, the vessels that supply the heart with blood. • Angina pectoris • Pain that radiates across the chest and arms • Caused by temporary shortage of oxygen • Myocardial infarction – heart attack Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  4. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD): Role of Stress • Development of CHD is associated with • Hostility • Exposure to chronic stress • Cardiovascular reactivity to stress • Heart disease is more common in low SES individuals • Mobile individuals are at higher risk than geographically stable individuals Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  5. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD): Women and CHD • Cardiovascular disease • Leading killer of women in the U.S. • Women seem to be protected at younger ages relative to men • Higher levels of HDL premenopausal • Estrogen diminishes sympathetic nervous system arousal Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  6. CHD: Cardiovascular Reactivity and Hostility • Type A Behavior Pattern • A behavioral and emotional style marked by an aggressive, unceasing struggle to achieve more and more in less time • often in hostile competition with other individuals or forces • a risk factor for coronary artery disease • Hostility appears to be especially implicated as the risk factor Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  7. CHD: Cardiovascular Reactivity and Hostility • Cynical Hostility • Particularly lethal type of hostility • Characterized by suspiciousness, resentment, frequent anger, antagonism, distrust of others • Have difficulty extracting social support from others • Fail to make effective use of available social support • Hostility combined with defensiveness is particular problematic Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  8. CHD: Negative Emotions and Risk Factors • Strong Associations between • Depression and heart attack • Hopelessness and heart attack • Anxiety and sudden cardiac death • Recent research • Social dominance may be related to all-cause mortality • Vital exhaustion predicts the likelihood of a heart attack Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  9. CHD: Modification of Risk-Related Behaviors • People with high cholesterol • Targeted for preventive dietary intervention • People who smoke • Programs to stop smoking • Exercise recommendations • Aerobic exercise in particular • Modifying hostility • Relaxation training; speech style interventions Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  10. CHD: Management of Heart Disease – The Role of Delay • Patients often delay before seeking treatment • Unable to accept that they are having a heart attach • Interpret the symptoms as a mild disorder • Who is likely to delay? • Older patients • African-American patients • Those with a history of angina or diabetes Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  11. CHD: Management of Heart Disease – Cardiac Rehabilitation • An intervention program designed to help heart patients achieve their optimal • physical, • medical, • psychological, • social, • emotional, • vocational, and • economic status • after diagnosis of heart disease or heart attack. Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  12. CHD: Management of Heart Disease – Cardiac Rehabilitation • Ischemia • Deficiency of blood supply to the heart due to obstruction or constriction of the coronary arteries • often associated with chest pain. • Ischemia • May result from physical stressors • Also results from mental stressors Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  13. CHD: Management of Heart Disease – Cardiac Rehabilitation • Cardiac invalidism • psychological state that can result after a myocardial infarction or diagnosis of coronary heart disease • the perception that a patient’s abilities and capacities are lower than they actually are • both patients and their spouses are vulnerable to these misperceptions. Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  14. CHD: Management of Heart Disease – Cardiac Rehabilitation • CPR: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation • A method of reviving the functioning of heart and lungs after a loss of consciousness in which the patient’s pulse has ceased or lungs have failed to function appropriately. • About 70% of potential sudden deaths from heart attacks occur in the home • Few programs train families in CPR Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  15. Hypertension: Overview • Hypertension • Excessively high blood pressure • Occurs when the supply of blood through the blood vessels is excessive, putting pressure on the vessel walls • a risk factor for a variety of medical problems, including coronary artery disease and kidney failure Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  16. Hypertension: How is it measured? • Sphygmomanometer – measures blood pressure • Systolic blood pressure • Sensitive to the volume of blood leaving the heart • Sensitive to the artery’s ability to stretch to accommodate the blood • Has greater value in determining hypertension Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  17. Hypertension: What Causes It? • 5% is caused by failure of kidneys to regulate blood pressure • 90% is essential hypertension • This means the cause is unknown • Risk factors • Prior to age 50, men at greater risk • After age 50, women at greater risk • Higher among minorities (lower SES) • Genetic factors play a role • Emotional factors, negative affect Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  18. Hypertension: Relationship between Stress and Hypertension • Combination of high demand and low control • Chronic social conflict • Job strain • unemployment • Crowded, noisy locales • Migration from rural to urban areas • Women – extensive family responsibilities Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  19. Hypertension: Relationship between stress and hypertension • Research Methods • Bring people with hypertension into the lab to respond to stressful tasks • Identify stressful circumstances and examine rates of hypertension • Ambulatory monitoring in which a person wears a cuff which assesses blood pressure at intervals throughout the day Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  20. Hypertension: Personality Factors • Originally • Thought to be a constellation of personality factors • Suppressed anger thought to be dominant • Currently • Personality is insufficient for developing hypertension • Hostility may play a role Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  21. Hypertension: Personality Factors • Particular medical problem among African-Americans • Tied to stress of racial discrimination • Dark-skinned African-Americans have higher rates of hypertension than lighter-skinned African-Americans • Stressful neighborhoods > hypertension • Racial differences in neuropeptide and cardiovascular responses to stressors Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  22. Hypertension: Personality Factors • John Henryism • A personality predisposition to cope actively with psychosocial stressors • may become lethal when those active coping efforts are unsuccessful • the syndrome has been especially documented among lower income Blacks at risk for or suffering from hypertension. Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  23. Hypertension: Treatment • Common treatments • Low-sodium diet – controversial because sodium depletion adversely affects the sympathetic nervous system • Reduction of alcohol • Weight-reduction in overweight patients • Exercise • Caffeine restriction Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  24. Hypertension: Treatment • Drug Treatments • Diuretics reduce blood volume • Promote the excretion of sodium • Adrenergic blockers & vasodilators • Adverse side effects lead to nonadherence • Drug treatments have become controversial • Blood pressure may be reduced but CHD likelihood may not be reduced Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  25. Hypertension: Treatment • Cognitive-Behavioral Treatments • Inducing a state of low arousal • Biofeedback, progressive muscle relaxation, hypnosis, meditation • Stress management programs • Identify particular stressors and develop plans to deal with them • Combination of diet, exercise, and behavioral strategies for weight loss Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  26. Stroke: Overview • A condition that results from a disturbance in blood flow to the brain, often marked by resulting physical or cognitive impairments and, in the extreme, death. • Third major cause of death in the U.S. • A chief risk of stroke • That more strokes will follow in its wake • Aspirin reduces the risk of recurrent strokes Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  27. Stroke: Risk Factors • Modifiable risk factors include • High blood pressure • Heart disease • Cigarette smoking • High red blood cell count • Transient ischemic attacks • Little strokes Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  28. Stroke: Consequences • Stroke affects all aspects of life • Personal • Social • Vocational • Physical • Motor, Cognitive, Emotional, and Relationship problems • symptoms and problems differ depending on which side of the brain was damaged Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  29. Stroke: Types of Rehabilitative Interventions • Four typical types • Psychotherapy • Includes treatment for depression • Cognitive-remedial training • To restore intellectual functioning • Specific-skill development • Use of structured, stimulating environments to challenge the patient’s capabilities Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  30. Diabetes: Overview • A chronic disorder in which the body is not able to manufacture or utilize insulin properly. • One of the leading causes of death in the U.S. • Cells of the body need energy to function • Glucose is the primary source of energy • Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas • Insulin acts as a “key” to permit glucose to enter the cells • Without insulin, cells don’t get the glucose they need Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  31. Diabetes: Types • Type I Diabetes (10% of all diabetes) • Abrupt onset of symptoms • Immune system falsely identifies cells in the pancreas as invaders and destroys them • Pancreas doesn’t produce insulin • Develops relatively early in life • Type II Diabetes • Cells lose ability to respond fully to insulin (known as insulin resistance) • Pancreas temporarily increases insulin production • Insulin-producing cells may give out Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  32. Diabetes: Health Implications • Diabetes is associated with • Thickening of the arteries due to buildup of wastes in the blood • High rates of CHD • Kidney failure • Nervous system damage • Pain and loss of sensation • Leading cause of blindness among adults Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  33. Diabetes: Problems in Self-Management • Ideal treatment • Patient-centered • Patient-directed • Patients need to • monitor glucose levels throughout the day • Take immediate action when needed • Adherence to self-management programs is low Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  34. Diabetes: Interventions with Diabetics • Programs to improve adherence include • Helping in self-injections • More training in monitoring blood sugar levels • Stress-management programs • Weight control • Improves glycemic control • Reduces the need for medication Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

  35. Diabetes: Special Problems of Adolescent Diabetics • Adolescents usually have Type I (more severe) • Restrictions of diabetes interfere with • Issues of independence and self-concept • Peer culture may stigmatize those who are different • When parents are actively involved in diabetes management tasks then there is better control of the disease Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes

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