Elizabeth A Bachen

Biographic Data

ID4088471
NAMEElizabeth A Bachen
GIVEN NAMESElizabeth A
FAMILY NAMEBachen
SIGNATUREBACHEN E A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pittsburgh
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS87
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX1

  • Perceived Discrimination, Perceived Stress, and Mental and Physical Health Among Mexican-Origin Adults

    Open AccessElena Flores, Jeanne M Tschann et al.ARTICLEHispanic Journal of Behavioral…2008Cited by: 87References: 50

    This study provided a test of the minority status stress model by examining whether perceived discrimination would directly affect health outcomes even when perceived stress was taken into account among 215 Mexican-origin adults. Perceived discrimination predicted depression and poorer general health, and marginally predicted health symptoms, when perceived stress was taken into account. Perceived stress predicted depression and poorer general he…

  • Effects of Hemoconcentration and Sympathetic Activation on Serum Lipid Responses to Brief Mental Stress

    Elizabeth A Bachen, Matthew F Muldoon et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2002

    Objective Previous studies suggest that hemoconcentration may be one mechanism by which acute psychological stress causes elevations of serum total cholesterol and its subfractions. Alternatively, such elevations may result from sympathetically mediated changes in lipid metabolism. This study evaluated these two hypotheses by manipulation of sympathetically mediated responses to stress using a nonselective adrenoceptor antagonist, labetalol. Meth…

  • Effects of Hemoconcentration and Sympathetic Activation on Serum Lipid Responses to Brief Mental Stress

    Open AccessElizabeth A BachenARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2002

    OBJECTIVE: Previous studies suggest that hemoconcentration may be one mechanism by which acute psychological stress causes elevations of serum total cholesterol and its subfractions. Alternatively, such elevations may result from sympathetically mediated changes in lipid metabolism. This study evaluated these two hypotheses by manipulation of sympathetically mediated responses to stress using a nonselective adrenoceptor antagonist, labetalol. MET…

  • Active Coping and Cardiovascular Reactivity

    Shari R Waldstein, Elizabeth A Bachen et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1997

    OBJECTIVE: Active coping enhances cardiovascular response presumably by beta-adrenergically mediated myocardial activation. This study examined impedance-derived hemodynamic parameters underlying blood pressure response to two laboratory tasks requiring active coping, performed either with or without an appetitive (i.e., monetary) incentive. METHOD: Forty-eight healthy, young men completed the Stroop Color-Word Test and Mirror Tracing. Half recei…

  • Adrenergic Blockade Ameliorates Cellular Immune Responses to Mental Stress in Humans

    Elizabeth A Bachen, Stephen B Manuck et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1995

    This study evaluated the sympathoadrenal modulation of behaviorally evoked immune responses by administration of a nonselective adrenoceptor antagonist (labetalol) to subjects exposed to mental stress. In a 2 x 2 factorial design, subjects were assigned to a labetalol or saline condition and, within each condition, were exposed either to acute laboratory stress or no stress (control). Lymphocyte subsets, natural killer (NK) cell cytotoxicity, and…

  • Cardiovascular reactivity and the course of immune response to an acute psychological stressor

    Tracy B Herbert, Sheldon Cohen et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1994

    This study evaluated the temporal nature of cellular immune responses, as well as the effects of cardiovascular reactivity on immune responses after exposure to an acute psychological stressor. Lymphocyte subsets and lymphocyte proliferative response to phytohemagglutinin were assessed at baseline and at 5 and 21 minutes after stressor onset in the experimental group and at the same time points in a nonstressor control group. By 5 minutes after s…

  • Lymphocyte subset and cellular immune responses to a brief experimental stressor

    Elizabeth A Bachen, Stephen B Manuck et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1992

    To evaluate effects of acute mental stress on aspects of cellular immunity, lymphocyte populations and phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated T-cell mitogenesis were measured in 33 healthy young men, both before and immediately following subjects' performance of a frustrating, 21-minute laboratory task (Stroop test). Relative to baseline evaluations, post-task measurements showed a significant reduction in mitogenesis and alterations in various circ…