RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY AND SELF-MEASURED BLOOD PRESSURE VALUE AT HOME: THE OHASAMA STUDY

Atsushi Hozawa Department of Public Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan

Takayoshi Ohkubo Department of Public Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan

Ichiro Tsuji Department of Public Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan

Masahiro Kikuya Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan

Mitsunobu Matsubara Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan; Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan

Toshinobu Suzuki Department of Public Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan

Kenichi Nagai Miyako Hospital, Iwate, Japan

Hirofumi Kitaoka Ohasama Hospital, Iwate, Japan

Yumiko Arai Research Unit for Nursing, Caring Sciences and Psychology, National Institute for Longevity Sciences, Aichi, Japan

Toru Hosokawa Department of Psychology and Disability, Tohoku University Graduate School of Education, Sendai, Japan

Hiroshi Satoh Department of Environmental Health Science, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan

Shigeru Hisamichi Department of Public Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan

Yutaka Imai Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan

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Abstract

We conducted a cross-sectional community survey in northern Japan to assess the relationship between personality and home blood pressure value. The Japanese version of the short-form Eysenck personality questionnaire was used to assess personality. A total of 999 people selected from the general population participated. We showed that the personality extroversion score positively affected the systolic blood pressure value, whereas no significant relationship was observed between personality psychoticism or neuroticism and blood pressure value. This study is the first to clarify the relationship between personality assessed by the Eysenck personality questionnaire and blood pressure measured in a non-medical setting. When physicians investigate the pathogenesis of essential hypertension, they should take psychological factors into consideration, as well as the many environmental and genetic factors.

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