Hostility, anger and a type A personality are independent risk factors for impaired glucose metabolism in older unmarried men.
The study was a retrospective analysis of data collected in the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study, which followed a cohort of 485 healthy men aged 42-76 (mean age 59) from 1986 to 1995 who had completed a personality inventory at baseline. Almost 80% of study participants were married.
Socio-demographic information, physical data, biometric investigations and psychometric data were collected every three years. This include blood pressure measurement and the collection if fasting blood glucose sample.
None of the participants had any history of heart disease or diabetes, and none were on medication for related problems.
After controlling for variables such as age, education, marital status, BMI, total cholesterol and systolic blood pressure, the analysis looked for an association between hostility, anger, type A behaviour or depression and fasting blood sugar level.
None of the variables were associate with fasting glucose at baseline, but the prospective fasting glucose after nine years showed an increase in unmarried men with hostility, anger and type A personality traits (P=<>
The study was a retrospective analysis of data collected in the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study, which followed a cohort of 485 healthy men aged 42-76 (mean age 59) from 1986 to 1995 who had completed a personality inventory at baseline. Almost 80% of study participants were married.
Socio-demographic information, physical data, biometric investigations and psychometric data were collected every three years. This include blood pressure measurement and the collection if fasting blood glucose sample.
None of the participants had any history of heart disease or diabetes, and none were on medication for related problems.
After controlling for variables such as age, education, marital status, BMI, total cholesterol and systolic blood pressure, the analysis looked for an association between hostility, anger, type A behaviour or depression and fasting blood sugar level.
None of the variables were associate with fasting glucose at baseline, but the prospective fasting glucose after nine years showed an increase in unmarried men with hostility, anger and type A personality traits (P=<>
