Independent Associations Between Trait-Anger, Depressive Symptoms and Preclinical Atherosclerotic Progression.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous research from our group found that recent depressive symptoms were associated with 3-year change in carotid intima-media thickness (CA-IMT), a biomarker of cardiovascular disease risk, in an initially healthy sample of older adults. Trait measures of anxiety, anger, and hostility did not predict 3-year CA-IMT progression in that report.

Purpose

The current study sought to reexamine these associations at a 6-year follow-up point.

Methods

Two-hundred seventy-eight participants (151 males, mean age = 60.68 years) from the original sample completed an additional IMT reading 6 years following the initial baseline assessment.

Results

Though not significant at 3-years, trait-anger emerged as a predictor of IMT progression at the 6-year point. When

SUBMITTER: Eckerle W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10122100 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature