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Anxious men are at greater risk of developing heart disease
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In men who are prone to anxiety, risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes appear at an early age.
American scientists have concluded that anxious men develop heart disease and diabetes earlier. The results of the study were published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. SciTechDaily.-
To track the relationship between anxiety and risk factors for cardiovascular disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, the authors analyzed data from the Normative Aging Study, a longitudinal study of male aging initiated in 1961 by the US Veterans Outpatient Clinic in Boston.
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The analysis included 1561 men, whose average age in 1975 was 53 years. At the time of entry into the study, they did not have cardiovascular disease or cancer and all were tested for neuroticism.
As you know, neurotics are characterized by a tendency to interpret situations as threatening, stressful, or overwhelming. They tend to experience negative emotions more often, such as fear, anxiety, sadness, and anger.
“Our results show that higher levels of anxiety among men are associated with biological processes that can lead to heart disease and metabolic disorders. And this association could have arisen much earlier than is commonly believed – potentially as early as childhood or adolescence,” he said. study lead author Levin Lee of the Boston University School of Medicine.
Worry can be adaptive or unhealthy, he says, especially when it becomes uncontrollable and interferes with daily activities.
Participants in the study had physical examinations and blood tests every three to five years. The authors chose seven risk factors among the parameters for assessing health status: upper and lower blood pressure numbers, total cholesterol, triglycerides, body mass index, fasting blood sugar, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and an inflammation marker.
Each participant was assigned a score, one for each of the seven risk factors. If a person had six or more high-risk markers, the scientists considered that they had already developed a cardiometabolic disease.
The researchers found that between the ages of 33 and 65, the average number of high-risk factors increased by about one per decade, reaching an average of 3.8 by age 65.
However, across all age groups, participants with higher levels of neuroticism had higher scores. Adjusted for demographic characteristics, they were 13% more likely to develop cardiometabolic disease than people with low anxiety.
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