Different lifestyle relates to the high stress reactions and advanced vascular ages

Abstract

In employee of a private university, I examined whether high stress reaction group has a characteristic lifestyle factor or body composition, and whether this feature, if any, is also observed in those with heart and vascular age higher than the real age. I used stress check data assessing job stress. Those with stress reaction points 17 or lower were regarded as belonging high stress reaction group. As for the heart and vascular age, I calculated this parameter by using D’Agostino’s method based on Framingham study data. Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that, in both men and women, the high stress reaction group was characterized by awareness of insufficient sleep rest. Whereas, those with heart and vascular age higher than the real age were characterized by high rate of obesity. These results indicated that lifestyle factor or body composition differed between the high stress reaction group and the group with high heart and vascular age, suggesting that job stress increase the cardiovascular risk via mechanisms other than the accumulation of classical risk factors.