Goal-Striving Stress and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Jackson Heart Study.
INTRODUCTION: Addressing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors is essential to reducing CVD burden in African Americans (AAs). Goal-striving stress (GSS), the stress associated with fears of failure, is particularly relevant to AAa in a society where their upward mobility is often blocked. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the association between GSS and incident hypertension, diabetes, and obesity among AAs. METHODS: Hazard regression models were used to assess the relationship between GSS and incident hypertension, diabetes, and obesity among 4,485 participants in the Jackson Heart Study. RESULTS: Among men, those with high (vs. low) GSS were 41% less likely to become obese over a mean period of eight years: 0.59 (0.36, 0.95) p=.03. DISCUSSION: Differences in health behaviors and in stress hormone responses may explain the stress-obesity association we found in men but not women. Future research should examine other factors that may explain this relationship.
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
Location
Related Subject Headings
- Risk Factors
- Public Health
- Obesity
- Male
- Longitudinal Studies
- Hypertension
- Humans
- Hormones
- Heart Disease Risk Factors
- Goals