Emotional eating as a mediator between anxiety and cholesterol in population with overweight and hypertension
| Autor: | Gonzalo Palomar, Ausiàs Cebolla, Marinna S. Mensorio, Enrique Rodilla, Marta Miragall, Juan Francisco Lisón, Rosa M. Baños |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male 0301 basic medicine Mediation (statistics) medicine.medical_specialty Hypercholesterolemia Statistics as Topic Population 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Overweight High cholesterol 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Affective Symptoms Psychiatry education Applied Psychology Aged education.field_of_study 030109 nutrition & dietetics Feeding Behavior Middle Aged Emotional eating medicine.disease Anxiety Disorders Obesity Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Cross-Sectional Studies Mood Hypertension Anxiety Female lipids (amino acids peptides and proteins) medicine.symptom Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychology, Health & Medicine. 22:911-918 |
| ISSN: | 1465-3966 1354-8506 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13548506.2016.1271134 |
| Popis: | Although the relationship between cholesterol and mood states (especially anxiety) has been well studied, few researches have included the role of eating styles in this relationship. This study explored the associations among eating styles, negative emotional symptoms, and levels of cholesterol (and other medical variables) in a population with hypertension and overweight or obesity, analyzing the possible mediation mechanisms involved. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 68 adults with hypertension and overweight/obesity, and stepwise multiple regression analysis and mediation analyses were carried out to test the hypothesis that eating styles mediate the relationship between negative emotional symptoms and cholesterol. Several significant correlations among age, anthropometric, medical, and psychological variables (eating styles and negative emotional symptoms) were found. There was a significant indirect effect of anxiety on total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol through emotional eating. Results suggest that emotional eating has a relevant role in the rise in total and LDL cholesterol, acting as a mediator in the relationship between anxiety and cholesterol. This finding could have important implications, since it introduces a new variable in the relationship between emotions and cholesterol and, therefore, changes the way of understanding this relationship, and of treating high cholesterol in a hypertensive sample. |
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