The Sympathetic activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans (SABPA) study was conducted between February 2008 and May 2009. The study included 200 black (101 women and 99 men) and 209 white ...

To test how swearing affected pain tolerance, researchers had subjects — 67 undergraduate students — participate in what’s known as a cold pressor test. That involves subjects submerging their hand in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Men and women who experience unrecognized MI have reduced pain sensitivity compared with those who experience ...

Correspondence to Professor Michel Coppieters, MOVE Research Institute Amsterdam, Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van ...

Does the ability to tolerate pain make you a better runner? If you ask runners, the answer you get is usually “Yes.” But there’s very little actual evidence that people who can tolerate more pain run ...

On a recent evening, Brian Pardy plunged his right hand into ice water and held it there for two and a half minutes. Pardy was carrying out an at-home experiment that the genetic testing company ...

Garry Jennings is the Chief Executive Officer at National Heart Foundation of Australia. He receives funding from the National Health and Research Council. Heart attacks happen more frequently in ...

When winter arrives and temperatures drop, there’s one place the mercury actually rises — in blood pressure gauges. A survival mechanism in people and other mammals constricts blood vessels in cold ...