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Associations Between First Year Medical Students’ Lifestyles, Resting Blood Pressure, And Resting Ecgs, Christina Spino-Oleck, Bram Sakdiponephong, Karen Davis, Kaela Frizzell, Charlotte H. Greene Phd, Bruce Kornberg

Research Day

Introduction: There is considerable evidence that psychological stressors can impact cardiovascular

health. Medical students experience a high degree of stress based upon their responses to survey questionnaires, although there are few physiological studies that support this association that are targeted specifically to medical students. Medical students in general represent an underrepresented age group in the context of cardiovascular treatment guidelines. Therefore, medical students are a pertinent cohort for study based upon these findings.

Objective:The purpose of this study was to analyze whether medical student lifestyles impact normal baseline cardiovascular measurements of blood pressures and electrocardiograms in this population. …