Insulin and glucose: relationships with hassles, anger, and hostility in nondiabetic older adults.
Insulin and glucose: relationships with hassles, anger, and hostility in nondiabetic older adults.
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胰岛素和葡萄糖:非糖尿病老年人与麻烦、愤怒和敌意的关系。
DOI:
10.1097/00006842-199609000-00011
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发表时间:
1996
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Fujimoto,W
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作者:
Vitaliano,PP;Scanlan,JM;Krenz,C;Fujimoto,W
Relationships of psychosocial factors (anger, hostility, hassles, and caregiving) with fasting insulin and glucose levels were examined. Samples included two groups of nondiabetic adults (mean age= 69.4 years): spouse caregivers (CG) of individuals with diagnoses of Alzheimer's disease (AD)(N= 78) and spouses of nondemented controls (CO)(N= 72) matched for age and gender. The groups were assessed twice with a 15-to 18-month hiatus. To obtain more stable assessments, all biopsychosocial measures were averaged over time. Psychosocial factors were associated with insulin and glucose, even after controlling for significant health variables: obesity, lipids, and cardiovascular disease. As hypothesized, CG with high anger-out/hostility (AOHO) had significantly higher glucose levels than all other group combinations. The glucose levels for subjects with high hassles or high AOHO were significantly higher than those for subjects who were low on both of these factors. For insulin, a three-way interaction occurred among AOHO, hassles, and genderhormone replacement therapy (HRT); in women taking HRT, no relationships occurred between insulin with AOHO and hassles. In women not taking HRT, those with high AOHO and high hassles had significantly higher insulin levels than the other three combinations, whereas in men, those with either high AOHO or high hassles had significantly higher insulin levels than men who were low on both of these factors. Given these results, future research should examine the degree to which interactions between metabolic processes with psychosocial variables, gender, and HRT have long term health consequences in nondiabetics.