Behavioral and perceived stressor effects on urinary catecholamine excretion in adult Samoans
| Autor: | Stephen T. McGarvey, David A. Bereiter, Matthew S. Steele, Meredith R. Bergey, Satupaitea Viali |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Independent State of Samoa Male medicine.medical_specialty genetic structures Epinephrine Cross-sectional study Physiology Social Environment Article Excretion Norepinephrine Internal medicine Urinary catecholamine Caffeine Surveys and Questionnaires Genetics medicine Humans Life Style Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics business.industry Stressor Smoking Gift giving Gift Giving Middle Aged language.human_language Endocrinology Cross-Sectional Studies Socioeconomic Factors Anthropology language Catecholamine Samoan Regression Analysis Female Anatomy business Stress Psychological medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council. 23(5) |
| ISSN: | 1520-6300 |
| Popis: | The effects of perceptions and behaviors related to culturally patterned socioeconomic obligations on catecholamine excretion rates were studied in a cross-sectional sample of Samoan adults.A total of 378 participants, ages 29-62 years, from 9 villages throughout Samoa, provided timed overnight urine specimens, and self-reported perceptions and behaviors associated with contributions to one's family, aiga, and chief, matai, and communal gift exchanges, fa'alavelave. Urinary norepinephrine and epinephrine excretion rates were measured by high performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection. Age (≤40 vs.40 years) and gender-specific regression models were estimated to detect associations with catecholamine excretion.Young women who contribute more to their matai, who consider fa'alavelave to be a financial strain, and who view their contribution to their matai to be "just right," had significantly higher residence-adjusted norepinephrine excretion. Young women who contribute more to their matai, who consider fa'alavelave to be a financial strain, and who consider their contribution to their aiga not to be a burden, had higher epinephrine excretion. Older men who contribute more to their aiga and who perceive their contribution to their aiga to be "just right" had increased residence-adjusted epinephrine excretion.Individual-level perceptions and behaviors related to traditional socioeconomic obligations are a significant correlate of increased overnight catecholamine excretion rates. Higher excretion rates may be attributed to psychosocial stress arousal associated with a discordance between personal desires for upward social mobility, and family and community-based socioeconomic obligations. Changes in patterns of individual-level psychosocial stress arousal may contribute to cardiovascular disease risk in modernizing Samoans. |
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