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Reactivity of Salivary Uric Acid in Response To Social Evaluative Stress in African Americans.

March 30, 2020 by IISBR

Reactivity of Salivary Uric Acid in Response To Social Evaluative Stress in African Americans.

Background: High uric acid (UA) is associated with hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD), both of which occur disproportionately among African Americans. High UA also predicts greater blood pressure reactivity responses to acute social stress. However, whether UA itself shows reactivity in response to stress is unknown. We evaluated salivary uric acid (sUA) and blood pressure reactivity in response to acute social stress. Healthy African Americans (N = 103; 32% male; M age = 31.36 years), completed the Trier Social Stress Test. sUA and blood pressure measurements were taken before, during and after the stressor task. sUA showed significant reactivity and recovery, especially among older African Americans. Total sUA activation was also associated with systolic and diastolic blood pressure total activation. Findings illuminate that acute stress may be a way in which UA is implicated in hypertension and CVD, suggesting a critical need to explore UA reactivity as a novel parameter of the acute stress response.

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Tagged With: african americans, blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stress biomarkers, stress reactivity, uric acid

Emotional Processing Coping Methods and Biomarkers of Stress in Young Adult Testicular Cancer Survivors

February 12, 2020 by IISBR

Emotional Processing Coping Methods and Biomarkers of Stress in Young Adult Testicular Cancer Survivors

Background: Coping through emotional processing (EP) with cancer-related circumstances can take several forms, including methods thought to be constructive (e.g., planning, meaning making) and unconstructive (e.g., rumination). These forms can have differential relationships with experiences of stress. Associations of coping through constructive and unconstructive EP in expressive writing with salivary stress biomarkers were examined among young adult testicular cancer survivors. Constructive processing was significantly associated with less overall daily cortisol output and smaller salivary alpha-amylase awakening response; unconstructive processing was also associated with lower daily cortisol output. These preliminary results from this exploratory study inform future research associating emotion-regulation coping and biological stress reactivity.

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Tagged With: emotional processing, salivary cortisol, stress, stress biomarkers, testicular cancer

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