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ArticleMolecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.)2016

Body Mass Index and Risk for Mental Stress Induced Ischemia in Coronary Artery Disease.

Robert Soufer, Antonio B Fernandez, Judith Meadows, Dorothea Collins, Matthew M Burg

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Article in Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The interface of emotion and biology in myocardial ischemia: Can we progress using the traditional paradigm?Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Robert SouferSection of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Antonio B FernandezSection of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Judith MeadowsSection of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Dorothea CollinsVA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven Campus, West Haven, CT, USA.
Matthew M BurgSection of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
VA Connecticut Healthcare System · USYale University · US

Funding

NEUROBEHAVIORAL CORRELATES OF MENTAL STRESS ISCHEMIAR01HL059619 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SOUFER, ROBERT · 1998 to 2012
$4.3M
CV Response to Mental Stress:Mechanistic ConsiderationsR01HL071116 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SOUFER, ROBERT · 2003 to 2006
$1.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL059619NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL071116
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute emotionally reactive mental stress (MS) can provoke prognostically relevant deficits in cardiac function and myocardial perfusion, and chronic inflammation increases risk for this ischemic phenomenon. We have described parasympathetic withdrawal and generation of inflammatory factors in MS. Adiposity is also associated with elevated markers of chronic inflammation. High body mass index (BMI) is frequently used as a surrogate for assessment of excess adiposity, and associated with traditional CAD risk factors, and CAD mortality. BMI is also associated with autonomic dysregulation, adipose tissue derived proinflammatory cytokines, which are also attendant to emotion provoked myocardial ischemia. Thus, we sought to determine if body mass index (BMI) contributes to risk of developing myocardial ischemia provoked by mental stress. We performed a prospective interventional study in a cohort of 161 patients with stable CAD. They completed an assessment of myocardial blood flow with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) simultaneously during 2 conditions: laboratory mental stress and at rest. Multivariate logistic regression determined the independent contribution of BMI to the occurrence of mental-stress induced ischemia. Mean age was 65.6 ±9.0 years; 87.0% had a history of hypertension, and 28.6% had diabetes. Mean BMI was 30.4 ± 4.7. Prevalence of mental stress ischemia was 39.8%. BMI was an independent predictor of mental stress ischemia, OR=1.10, 95% CI [1.01-1.18] for one-point increase in BMI and OR=1.53, 95% CI [1.06-2.21] for a 4.7 point increase in BMI (one standard deviation beyond the cohort BMI mean), p=0.025 for all. These data suggest that BMI may serve as an independent risk marker for mental stress ischemia. The factors attendant with greater BMI, which include autonomic dysregulation and inflammation, may represent pathways by which high BMI contribute to this risk and serve as a conceptual construct to replicate these findings in larger CAD populations.

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autonomic dysfunctionbody mass indexinflammationmental stress ischemiaobesity

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PMID27261777
PMCPMC5023512
OpenAlexW2412187693

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