Personality traits and diabetes incidence among postmenopausal women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined whether personality traits, including optimism, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness, negative emotional expressiveness, and hostility, were associated with risk of developing type 2 diabetes (hereafter diabetes) among postmenopausal women.

Methods

A total of 139,924 postmenopausal women without diabetes at baseline (between 1993 and 1998) aged 50 to 79 years from the Women's Health Initiative were prospectively followed for a mean of 14 (range 0.1-23) years. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to assess associations between personality traits and diabetes incidence adjusting for common demographic factors, health behaviors, and depressive symptoms. Personality traits were gathered at baseline using questionnaires. Di

SUBMITTER: Luo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7988486 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature