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A study of the Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine examines whether stress shortens life Writing Sunday, March 27, 2011
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The aim of the study, advised by the Research Institute of AP, is to test whether stress and / or depression suffer favor Metabolic syndrome
Barcelona (03/11/1925) .- The Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine (CAMFiC) has initiated a study to see if the pain makes you sick. The aim of the study, advised by the Institute of Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), is to check whether stress and / or depression suffer favor metabolic syndrome.
Metabolic syndrome is a set of factors that increase cardiovascular risk. These factors are: a waist circumference greater than 102 cm in men or 88 cm in women, have high blood pressure above 130-85, HDL (good cholesterol)
<40 mg / dl en hombres, <50mg/dl en mujeres, tener los triglicéridos superiores a 150mg/dl y / o la glucemia basal por encima de 110mg/dl.
to have metabolic syndrome must have three or more factors at a time, so the person is a cardiovascular risk higher than expected.
Family physicians are closely monitored patients with metabolic syndrome also identified and may have other factors leading to cardiovascular risk and consumption of alcohol or snuff. This study is to determine whether a person who does not seem to suffer a priori metabolic syndrome (because it can not have any of the above factors, or only one) may develop the syndrome if it comes under stress, either by anxiety, depression , stressful life events (such as the loss of a loved one), or poor quality of life. According
Yolanda Ortega, CAMFiC family physician and principal investigator of the project "syndrome is very common and we know its high prevalence, we know that 15 percent of the population will develop it, but know your progress. This study should provide a picture the incidence and profile that marks the evolution of our patients in this syndrome in the field of mental health. In fact, we know that 14 percent of the population currently suffers from depression, and the working hypothesis we have is that this percentage of population, 25 percent will develop metabolic syndrome. "
A large study
The study, currently underway, is performed on a random sample of 738 people at high risk of developing MS, 40 or older who attended an urban primary care center during the past year.
To collect information leverages the research team Regular patient first visit to present the study and requesting their informed consent. The patient is referred for an analytical control. Once the analytical and the results of physical examination, decide if it is included or excluded from the study.
Patients who follow later in the project are given different questionnaires to assess their perception of quality of life, and to measure their anxiety and possible depression. They will be regular monitoring and after a year they will make the analytical and pass the tests to determine their perception of quality of life, and to measure anxiety and depression again.
The results will determine whether patients with anxiety or depression are more likely to develop metabolic syndrome. In this case it is considered that psychological distress would have made these people sick.
Dr. Ortega insists that "the possibility of influencing the detection of mental illness as a preventive measure of new cases of metabolic syndrome will allow us to take preventive action in cardiovascular disease in all its forms."
The project, 'The impact of stress to metabolic syndrome "has been funded by Research Grants awarded by the CAMFIC annually.
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