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Trait Anger and the Metabolic Syndrome Predict Progression of Carotid Atherosclerosis in Healthy Middle-Aged Women

From the University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology, Helsinki, Finland (K.R.); and the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry (K.A.M.), Department of Epidemiology (K.S.-T.), and Department of Psychology (L.H.K.), Pittsburgh, PA.

View larger version (46K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Percent increase in mean IMT over 3 years according to quartiles of baseline Trait Anger scores measured 7.4 years before the first scan. (F (7,195) = 2.68, p < .05 in ANCOVA, controlling for mean IMT measured at first carotid scans, age at the time of Trait Anger measure and length of follow-up; p < .05 for linear trend.)

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. A path model showing associations among Trait Anger, metabolic syndrome and progression of carotid atherosclerosis. The model included age at the time of Trait Anger measure, duration between baseline and to the first carotid scans, and duration between the first and second carotid scans. These paths are not shown for the clarity of figure. The metabolic syndrome variable 0 = remained free from the metabolic syndrome over the follow-up, 1 = developed the metabolic syndrome over the follow-up. Continuous variables were log-transformed. 2 (3) = 6.027, p = .1096, CFI = 0.94, RMSEA = 0.074.