Menstrual mood disorders are associated with blunted sympathetic reactivity to stress

Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Rebecca KlatzkinSusan S Girdler

Abstract

Few studies have directly compared women with a menstrually related mood disorder (MRMD) with women who have suffered from depression for stress reactivity phenotypes. It is unclear whether blunted responses to stress in women with a MRMD reflect a unique phenotype of MRMDs or may be explained by a history of depression. We assessed cardiovascular reactivity to stress in four groups: 1) Women with a MRMD without a history of depression (n=37); 2) women with a MRMD plus a history of depression (n=26); 3) women without a MRMD and without a history of depression (n=43); and 4) women without a MRMD but with a history of depression (n=20). Women with a MRMD showed blunted myocardial (heart rate and cardiac index) reactivity to mental stress compared to non-MRMD women, irrespective of histories of depression. Hypo-reactivity to stress predicted greater premenstrual symptom severity in the entire sample. Women with a MRMD showed blunted norepinephrine and diastolic blood pressure stress reactivity relative to women with no MRMD, but only when no history of depression was present. Both MRMD women and women with depression histories reported greater negative subjective responses to stress relative to their non-MRMD and never depressed c...Continue Reading

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