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Do borderline personality disorder traits independently associate with midlife cardiometabolic risk?
Do borderline personality disorder traits independently associate with midlife cardiometabolic risk?
Borderline personality disorder traits are independently associated with increased cardiometabolic risk in midlife, highlighting a potential novel psychological risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
BPD traits may flag cardiometabolic risk beyond depression; leaves open causality and practice implications.
= 1,295). BPD pathology was measured using dimensional, multi-informant trait measures; depressive symptomology was self-reported; and cardiometabolic risk was indexed via multiple indicators of insulin resistance, adiposity, dyslipidemia, and blood pressure. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate the effects of BPD traits and depressive symptoms on aggregated cardiometabolic risk, adjusting for their shared variance. Results showed both BPD features and depressive symptomatology related to the extent of cardiometabolic risk; when examined simultaneously, only BPD associated independently with risk indicators. In further supporting a link between BPD pathology and cardiovascular disease risk, these findings warrant future work to elucidate intervening behavioral and biological mechanisms. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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