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Affects and autonomic cardiac reactivity during experimentally induced stress as related to precursors of insulin resistance syndrome

  • Sampsa Puttonen
  • , Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen*
  • , Niklas Ravaja
  • , Jorma Viikari
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This study examined the association of insulin resistance syndrome (IRS) precursors with state affects and autonomic reactivity in randomly selected healthy young adults. It was asked whether IRS precursors are able to predict a person's mental and physiological coping with acute stress over an 11-year follow-up period. IRS parameters were serum insulin, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, systolic blood pressure, body-mass index, and subscapular skinfold thickness. In the psychophysiological experiment, state affects and cardiac responses (heart rate, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and pre-ejection period) were measured during different challenges. The main result was that IRS precursors predicted high levels of negative emotions during the challenges; IRS accounted for 19% of the variance in tiredness. IRS was unrelated to cardiac reactivity. Mechanisms underlying the associations found are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)106-124
Number of pages19
JournalInternational Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Volume10
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003
Externally publishedYes
Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

Sampsa Puttonen, Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen, & Niklas Ravaja, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki; Jorma Viikari, Department of Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. This study was supported by the Academy of Finland (Academy project number: 50907) and the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg’s foundation. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 9, FIN–00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. E-mail: [email protected]

Keywords

  • Emotion
  • Heart rate
  • Insulin resistance syndrome
  • Pre-ejection period
  • Respiratory sinus arrhythmia
  • Stress

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Applied Psychology

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