Research

Hormonal

High hostile individuals with diabetes have heightened inflammatory stress responses and blunted cortisol stress responses compared to low hostile individuals.

Practitioners should assess hostility levels in diabetic patients as it may affect stress responses.

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The findings suggest that high hostile individuals with diabetes have heightened inflammatory stress responses and blunted cortisol stress responses in comparison to low hostile individuals.
Ruth A. Hackett · UCL Discovery (University College London) · 2016

Why this rating

Based on the assessment of psychosocial factors in a controlled study.

Source

The role of psychosocial wellbeing and biological stress processes in linking type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease

Ruth A. Hackett · UCL Discovery (University College London) · 2016

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