Metabolic Syndrome in Older Women: A Stress Management Treatment Model | Chapter 8 | New Frontiers in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 13
The goal of this study was to see if Lipp Stress Control Training can help people with metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is defined by the presence of several risk factors such as glucose intolerance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, as well as poor diet, sedentariness, tobacco use, alcoholism, and excessive stress. The study included 45 older women with MetS who were between the ages of 60 and 75. Lipp Stress Control Training, comprising of eight two-hour sessions with five groups of eight persons, was provided to them once a week. After the session, stress levels were found to have fallen significantly (p=0.005). Before and after treatment, total cholesterol (p=0.012), LDL (p=0.0133), and triglycerides (p=0.05) were all significantly reduced in the group. Stress Control Training reduced some MetS risk factors, such as stress, and may have aided in the reduction of MetS components such as glucose, triglycerides, total cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol. If the current conclusions are confirmed in future study with a larger number of participants, Stress Control Training will be a useful, psychological therapy model providing a preventative approach for coronary diseases, insofar as it might decrease the risk variables linked in MetS.
Author (S) Details
Marilda E. N. Lipp
Instituto
de Psicologia e Controle do Stress – IPCS, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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