January 1, 2000Psychosomatic Medicine
Hostility and the Metabolic Syndrome in Older Males: The Normative Aging Study
Why the study?
Is hostility associated with cardiovascular risk factors representing the metabolic syndrome in older men?
Population
1,081 older men who participated in the Normative Aging Study, completed the Minnesota Multiphasic…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
1 to 4 years
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Discussion
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Implication
Hostility associates with metabolic syndrome features in older men; leaves open causality and whether interventions targeting hostility improve outcomes.
Structured PICO
Is hostility associated with cardiovascular risk factors representing the metabolic syndrome in older men?
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Population
1,081 older men who participated in the Normative Aging Study, completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in 1986, and participated in a subsequent laboratory examination within 1 to 4 years.
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Intervention
Hostility as measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-derived Cook-Medley Hostility Scale (Ho)
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Outcome
Associations with cardiovascular risk factors representing the metabolic syndrome (anthropometric data, cigarette smoking, dietary information, serum lipids, blood pressure, and fasting glucose and insulin levels)surrogate
In older men, hostility is associated with a pattern of obesity, central adiposity, and insulin resistance, which may mediate its effects on blood pressure and serum lipids.
Cite This Study
Niaura et al. (2000) studied this question.