What is the clinical evidence from this study?

Study design: Cross-Sectional. Intervention: Hostility. Primary outcome: Lifestyle behaviors and physical risk factors.

What does this research mean for the field?

Hostility is positively associated with cholesterol intake and vigorous physical activity across sexes, with distinct sex-specific associations observed for diet, cigarette smoking, and resting systolic blood pressure. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine how hostility relates to lifestyle behaviors and physical cardiovascular risk factors in adult men and women.

March 1, 1992Behavioral Medicine

Hostility: Relationship to Lifestyle Behaviors and Physical Risk Factors

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Key result

Hostility is linked to higher cholesterol intake, vigorous physical activity, and sex-specific lifestyle risks.

n=138

Why the study?

The relationship between hostility and coronary artery disease may be partially mediated by unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, but the associations with lifestyle and physical risk factors require further examination.

Is hostility associated with unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and physical risk factors in adults?

Population

138 adult men and women

Comparison

Composite hostility score and total hostility score associations with lifestyle behaviors and physical risk factors

Design

Cross-sectional study

Authors

LMLinda MusanteUniversity of Tampa FTFrank A. TreiberPreventive Cardiology HDHarry DavisUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore

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Implication

Supports hostility screening in lifestyle counseling; leaves open causal mediation of CAD risk.

Key Points

To examine how hostility relates to lifestyle behaviors and physical cardiovascular risk factors in adult men and women.
Evaluated 138 adult men and women (N=138) using the Cook and Medley Hostility Scale (Ho scale), analyzing both total score and a composite subscale tapping cynicism, hostile affect, and aggressiveness.
Assessed self-reported dietary habits, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and physical activity alongside physiological measurements of resting blood pressure, height, weight, and adiposity.
Across both men and women, total and composite hostility measures were positively associated with dietary cholesterol intake and vigorous physical activity.
In women, hostility measures positively associated with animal fat intake and negatively with fiber intake, with composite hostility positively linked to resting systolic blood pressure.
In men, hostility measures positively associated with cigarette smoking and sugar intake, while negatively associating with resting systolic blood pressure and calcium intake.

Study Design

Type

Cross-Sectional (n=138)

Structured PICO

Is hostility associated with unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and physical risk factors in adults?

Population

138 adult men and women assessed for the relationship between hostility, lifestyle behaviors, and physical risk factors.

Outcome

Lifestyle behaviors (dietary habits, alcohol and cigarette consumption, physical activity) and physical risk factors (resting blood pressure, height, weight, adiposity)surrogate

Hostility is associated with various unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and physical risk factors, which may partially mediate its relationship with coronary artery disease.

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Musante et al. (1992) reported a cross-sectional. Hostility was evaluated on Lifestyle behaviors and physical risk factors. Hostility was positively associated with cholesterol intake and vigorous physical activity in both sexes, with additional sex-specific associations for diet, smoking, and blood pressure.

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Hostility: Relationship to Lifestyle Behaviors and Physical Risk Factors

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Study Design

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