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Greater volume loading blood pressure responses alters the control of heart rate when a perception of distress is apparent. Indeed, increased stress perception and an increased heart workload reflected poor heart rate control

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Why is it important?

The link between brain and heart was shown. Individuals have to reflect on stress management especially when a perception of poor well-being is experienced.

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Perception of distress increases brain activity and can reflect in your heart.

Professor Leoné Malan
North-West University

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This page is a summary of: Autonomic responses to stress in Black versus Caucasian Africans: The SABPA Study, Psychophysiology, December 2011, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01328.x.
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