Stress resilience and physical fitness in adolescence and risk of coronary heart disease in middle age.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Psychosocial stress is a suggested risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). The relationship of stress resilience in adolescence with subsequent CHD risk is underinvestigated, so our objective was to assess this and investigate the possible mediating role of physical fitness.

Methods

In this register-based study, 237,980 men born between 1952 and 1956 were followed from 1987 to 2010 using information from Swedish registers. Stress resilience was measured at a compulsory military conscription examination using a semistructured interview with a psychologist. Some 10,581 diagnoses of CHD were identified. Cox regression estimated the association of stress resilience with CHD, with adjustment for established cardiovascular risk factors.

Results

Low-stress resilienc

SUBMITTER: Bergh C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4396533 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature