Body Mass Index, Abdominal Adiposity, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Reactions to Psychological Stress in a Large Community Sample

Type D personality and hemodynamic reactivity to laboratory stress in women

“…There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that blunted, rather than exaggerated, physiological reactivity is associated with a range of health outcomes such as depression and obesity (Carroll et al, 2007;York et al, 2007;Carroll et al, 2008). Studies have shown that those who respond best to a vaccination challenge show greater cardiovascular and cortisol reactions to stress (e.g., Phillips et al, 2009), while young adolescents who spent a greater proportion of their lives in poverty show muted CVR to acute stress (Evans and Kim, 2007).…”

Disordered eating behaviour is associated with blunted cortisol and cardiovascular reactions to acute psychological stress

“…Those addicted to alcohol have also been found to exhibit blunted cortisol and cardiovascular stress reactivity (Lovallo et al, 2000;Panknin et al, 2002), as have the offspring of alcoholic parents (Moss et al, 1999;Sorocco et al, 2006), suggesting that blunted reactivity may actually predict addiction and signal future risk of addiction. Blunted reactivity has also been associated with obesity (Carroll et al, 2008), lower selfreported health (Phillips et al, 2009a;, and depression (Carroll et al, 2007;York et al, 2007;Salomon et al, 2009;. Most recently, blunted reactivity has been found in those reporting high perceived stress relative to their actual life events exposure (Ginty and Conklin, 2011) and in those with exercise dependence (Heaney et al, 2011).…”

“…/j.psyneuen.2011 bulimics with a binge eating disorder group and a control group of obese individuals. There is evidence that obesity is also associated with blunted cardiovascular reactivity (Carroll et al, 2008), and so bulimics may only appear to show elevated cardiac reactivity when compared to controls who show blunted reactivity. It is worth noting that similar magnitude HR reactivity characterised their bulimic patients and our disordered eating individuals.…”

Type D personality and hemodynamic reactivity to laboratory stress in women

“…While the response profile for serial subtraction is not as established, previous work by Girdler, Turner, Sherwood, and Light (1990) showed that serial subtraction and mental arithmetic produced markedly different This study extended previous investigation of CVR in Type D individuals by examining specific response profiles. Individuals who typically react with increases in TPR that are not offset by decreases in CO may be at risk due to atherosclerotic changes arising from repeated or prolonged periods of increased vascular resistance (Gregg et al, 2002 There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that blunted, rather than exaggerated, physiological reactivity is associated with a range of health outcomes such as depression and obesity (Carroll et al, 2007;York et al, 2007;Carroll et al, 2008). Studies have shown that those who respond best to a vaccination challenge show greater cardiovascular and cortisol reactions to stress (e.g., Phillips et al, 2009), while young adolescents who spent a greater proportion of their lives in poverty show muted CVR to acute stress (Evans and Kim, 2007).…”