Psychosocial stress and the insulin resistance syndrome

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental
K RäikkönenA Hautanen

Abstract

We examined the association between psychosocial stress-related variables and insulin resistance syndrome (IRS) risk-factor clustering. In 90 middle-aged male volunteers, psychosocial stress-related variables, defined as feelings of excessive tiredness and as personality and behavioral factors reflecting a stress-inducing life-style (type A behavior, hostility, and anger), were significantly correlated with the hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, hypertension, increased abdominal obesity, and increased plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) antigen comprising the IRS. The correlations remained significant after adjusting for body mass index (BMI), age, educational level, smoking status, alcohol consumption, and physical activity. However, the different stress-related factors reflected different risk-factor clustering profiles. Type A behavior was associated with normotension and a normal metabolic profile (canonical r = .50, chi2(36) = 59.1, P = .008). Hostility was related to elevated systolic blood pressure (SBP) and elevated triglycerides (TGs) (canonical r = .38, chi2(14) = 23.2, P = .052), whereas feelings of excessive tiredness were related to abdominal obesity, augmented glycemic responses to glucose ingest...Continue Reading

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