Gaston Kapuku

Biographic Data

ID8872406
NAMEGaston Kapuku
GIVEN NAMESGaston
FAMILY NAMEKapuku
SIGNATUREKAPUKU G
AFFILIATIONSUniversité Protestante au Congo
ORCID0000-0002-0854-1413
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0

  • Ethnic Differences in Resting Total Peripheral Resistance

    Briana N Brownlow, Daniel P Williams et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2020

  • Ethnic Differences in Resting Heart Rate Variability

    Labarron K Hill, Dixie Doreen Hu et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2015

    BACKGROUND: Ethnic disparities in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality are widely documented in the literature. Recently, research has shown that decreased parasympathetic cardiac modulation is associated with the established and emerging risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke. In consideration of the disproportionate CVD risk and disease profile of African Americans (AAs), it is plausible that decreased cardiac parasympatheti…

  • La pentecôtisation du protestantisme à Kinshasa

    Sébastien Kalombo Kapuku, Gaston KapukuARTICLEAfrique contemporaine2015References: 5

    À Kinshasa, les Églises protestantes, et même certaines franges du catholicisme, adoptent de plus en plus les caractéristiques pentecôtistes, tournées vers le miracle et l’efficacité visible du Saint-Esprit. L’objet de cet article est d’expliquer ce processus, appelé « pentecôtisation », en situant la progression du pentecôtisme congolais dans une histoire longue. Le pentecôtisme a connu en République démocratique du Congo un essor important depu…

  • Stress Reduces Diastolic Function in Youth

    Gaston K Kapuku, Gaston Kapuku et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2012

    OBJECTIVE: Research regarding the influence of mental stress (MS) on heart function focused primarily on heart contractility. We hypothesized that MS results in attenuated diastolic function (DF) as early as in adolescence and this effect may differ by race and sex. METHODS: 161 normotensive adolescents (81 blacks and 80 females) performed resting (control) and MS (experimental) conditions on separate visits. Visits lasted for 3 hours (1-hour res…

  • Cardiovascular Reactivity and Development of Preclinical and Clinical Disease States

    Frank A Treiber, Thomas W Kamarck et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2003

    OBJECTIVE: The objective of this review is to evaluate the evidence for the hypothesis that cardiovascular reactivity can predict the development of preclinical (elevated blood pressure, ventricular remodeling, carotid atherosclerosis) and/or clinical cardiovascular disease states. METHODS: A review of the literature was conducted examining prospective studies. RESULTS: Three large epidemiological studies with long-term follow-up periods (20 year…

  • Plasma Endothelin-1 Release During Acute Stress

    Frank A Treiber, Gaston K Kapuku et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2002

    Objectives The purposes of this study were to examine possible ethnic and sex differences in plasma ET-1 levels at rest and in response to acute stress and to examine relationships between ET-1 and vasoconstrictive-mediated BP reactivity to stress. Methods Two hundred twenty-two adolescents (mean age = 18.5 ± 2.8 years; 130 [70 males] EAs and 92 [48 males] AAs) completed two stressors (video game, forehead cold). Hemodynamic measures and blood sa…

  • The Effects of Life Events on Cardiovascular Reactivity to Behavioral Stressors As a Function of Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity, and Sex

    Linda Musante, Frank A Treiber et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2000

    OBJECTIVE: The purposes of this study were 1) to examine the effects of stressful life events on cardiovascular reactivity to acute laboratory stressors in youth and 2) to determine whether these effects varied as a function of socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and/or sex. METHODS: Four hundred eighty-three youths (mean age = 16.7 years; 249 Caucasian Americans [126 males, 123 females] and 234 African Americans [109 males, 125 females]) completed …