Higher perceived stress is associated with lower cortisol concentrations but higher salivary interleukin-1beta in socially evaluated cold pressor test
| Autor: | Katarina Buzgoova, Daniela Jezova, Martin Marko, Igor Riecansky, Lucia Balagova, Daniela Kapsdorfer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male
Hydrocortisone genetic structures Physiology Visual analogue scale media_common.quotation_subject Interleukin-1beta Stimulus (physiology) 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience chemistry.chemical_compound 0302 clinical medicine Perception Humans Medicine Saliva media_common Aldosterone Endocrine and Autonomic Systems business.industry Cold pressor test 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Distress Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Rate pressure product Blood pressure chemistry Salivary alpha-Amylases business Stress Psychological 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Stress. 23:248-255 |
| ISSN: | 1607-8888 1025-3890 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10253890.2019.1660872 |
| Popis: | The relationship between subjective stress perception and the objective stress response to acute stress stimuli is not sufficiently understood. The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that the neuroendocrine response in socially evaluated cold pressor test (CPT) depends on the extent of perceived stressfulness of the stimulus. The test was performed in 24 healthy male volunteers. Subjective stress perception was assessed using nine visual analog scales. The subjects were divided to low and high stress perception groups according to the median split of the scores. Subjects with high stress perception exhibited slightly lower values of systolic blood pressure and lower overall concentrations of salivary cortisol compared to subjects with low stress perception. Salivary alpha-amylase activity did not show significant changes. Salivary aldosterone decreased in time in subjects with low but increased early after the test in subjects with high stress perception. Interestingly, salivary concentrations of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-1beta were considerably higher in subjects with high stress perception, particularly immediately before the test. The differences in salivary cortisol and interleukin-1beta were confirmed by the analysis with distress as a continuous covariate. Distress scores correlated negatively with salivary cortisol and positively with interleukin-1beta. The rate pressure product, which is a global measure of energy consumption by the heart, was significantly higher immediately before than after the stress exposure. The present findings show that concentrations of interleukin-1beta are a sensitive component of the stress response at the time before the stressful event.Lay summaryIt is generally expected that higher perceived stressfulness of a stimulus is accompanied by higher activation of stress-related systems. This study evaluating a combined psychosocial and physical stress situation in healthy men provides evidence that individual parameters of the stress response are differently related to perceived stress intensity. Subjects with high stress perception exhibited lower systolic blood pressure and salivary cortisol, higher interleukin-1beta, marginal differences in alpha amylase and aldosterone compared to subjects with low stress perception, which might be important for stress coping. |
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