Stress-Recovery State in Fibromyalgia Patients and Healthy People. Relationship with the Cardiovascular Response to Stress in Laboratory Conditions

Borja Matías Pompa; Almudena López López; Miriam Alonso Fernández; Estefanía Vargas Moreno; José Luis González Gutiérrez

doi:10.3390/ijerph17093138

Stress-Recovery State in Fibromyalgia Patients and Healthy People. Relationship with the Cardiovascular Response to Stress in Laboratory Conditions

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Apr 30;17(9):3138. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17093138.

Authors

Borja Matías Pompa¹, Almudena López López¹, Miriam Alonso Fernández¹, Estefanía Vargas Moreno¹, José Luis González Gutiérrez¹

Affiliation

¹ Psychology Department, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28922 Alcorcón, Spain.

Abstract

The current study´s objective was to determine the relationship between stress-recovery state and cardiovascular response to an acute stressor in a sample of female fibromyalgia patients in comparison with a control group of healthy participants. The laboratory procedure was completed by 36 participants with fibromyalgia and by 38 healthy women who were exposed to an arithmetic task with harassment while blood pressure and heart rate were measured during task exposure.

Keywords: cardiovascular response; fibromyalgia; stress; stress-recovery state; sympathetic nervous system.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Blood Pressure*
Cardiovascular System / physiopathology
Female
Fibromyalgia* / physiopathology
Heart Rate*
Humans
Stress, Psychological*