BackgroundAlthough the quality of one's social relationships has been linked to important physical health outcomes, less work has been conducted examining family and friends that differ in their underlying positivity and negativity.PurposeThe main aim of this study was to examine the association between supportive, aversive, and ambivalent family/friends with levels of C-reactive proteins.MethodsThree hundred participants from the North Texas Heart Study completed the social relationships index and a blood draw to assess high-sensitivity C-reactive proteins (hs-CRPs).ResultsAfter standard controls, the number of supportive family members predicted lower hs-CRP levels, whereas the number of ambivalent family members predicted higher hs-CRP l...
Healthy normotensive men and women (N 102) underwent a 3-day ambulatory blood pressure (BP) assessm...
OBJECTIVE: Analyses test the hypothesis that aspects of social relationships (quantity of ties, soci...
Social support is associated with cardiovascular disease mortality, however, the physiologic mechani...
Perceived social support has been reliably related to lower rates of morbidity and mortality. Howeve...
Although the quality of one’s own social relationships has been related to cardiovascular morbidity ...
The aim of the current study was to examine how thinking about qualitatively different social networ...
Social relationships have long been held to have powerful effects on health and survival, but it rem...
The associations between social relationships and health have been examined using two major research...
To understand the influence of social relationships on cardiovascular responses to stress, the prese...
Objectives: Although perceiving one’s social ties as sources of ambivalence has been linked to negat...
Chronic stress has been linked to negative health outcomes, including increased inflammation, which ...
Social integration (SI) and perceived social support (SS) are associated with reduction in premature...
thesisThe quality and quantity of one's relationships have been reliably linked to morbidity and mo...
The purpose of this study was to measure if there is a predictive relationship between self-reported...
In the present review, we argue that social disconnectedness could and should be included in primary...
Healthy normotensive men and women (N 102) underwent a 3-day ambulatory blood pressure (BP) assessm...
OBJECTIVE: Analyses test the hypothesis that aspects of social relationships (quantity of ties, soci...
Social support is associated with cardiovascular disease mortality, however, the physiologic mechani...
Perceived social support has been reliably related to lower rates of morbidity and mortality. Howeve...
Although the quality of one’s own social relationships has been related to cardiovascular morbidity ...
The aim of the current study was to examine how thinking about qualitatively different social networ...
Social relationships have long been held to have powerful effects on health and survival, but it rem...
The associations between social relationships and health have been examined using two major research...
To understand the influence of social relationships on cardiovascular responses to stress, the prese...
Objectives: Although perceiving one’s social ties as sources of ambivalence has been linked to negat...
Chronic stress has been linked to negative health outcomes, including increased inflammation, which ...
Social integration (SI) and perceived social support (SS) are associated with reduction in premature...
thesisThe quality and quantity of one's relationships have been reliably linked to morbidity and mo...
The purpose of this study was to measure if there is a predictive relationship between self-reported...
In the present review, we argue that social disconnectedness could and should be included in primary...
Healthy normotensive men and women (N 102) underwent a 3-day ambulatory blood pressure (BP) assessm...
OBJECTIVE: Analyses test the hypothesis that aspects of social relationships (quantity of ties, soci...
Social support is associated with cardiovascular disease mortality, however, the physiologic mechani...