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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2013 Aug 19;75(7):691–700. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31829f9823

Table 1.

Coding of Piecewise Parameters

BL RE1 RE2 RE3 RE4 RE5 RE6 RC1 RC2 RC3 RC4 RC5
π0i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
π1i 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 6
π2i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 5
π3i 0 1 4 9 16 25 36 36 36 36 36 36
π4i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 9 16 25

BL = resting blood pressure level (M of six resting readings); RE# = reactivity period reading number (every two minutes) during acute stressor; RC# = recovery period reading number (every two minutes) beginning 30 seconds after the cessation of the acute stressor.