Browsing Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Subject "Defensive coping"
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Coping facilitated troponin T increases and hypo-responsivity in the copeptin-HPA-axis during acute mental stress in a black cohort: the SABPA study
(Elsevier, 2019)Background Defensive coping (DefS) was associated with a vulnerable cardiovascular profile in blacks. The copeptin/vasopressin system is a manifestation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-axis activity and may act as an ... -
Defensive active coping facilitates chronic hyperglycaemia and endothelial dysfunction in African men: the SABPA study
(Elsevier, 2013)Background: Dissociation between behavioural defensive active coping (AC) control albeit physiological “loss of control” responses was associated with silent ischaemia and structural wall abnormalities in African men. Whether ...