Serum lipid and antioxidant status in persons with stress

Lee, Jung Bum

Abstract

BACKGROUND
The mordern people live in excessive stress This stress seems to be related to various diseases. The increase of daily stressful life also seems to relate closely to serum lipids and antioxidants. This study attempted to show how much daily life stress affects serum lipids and antioxidants.
METHODS
sixty one healthy people who visited health screening center of a university hospital were enrolled for this study from October to November, 1998. In the survey of daily life stress, the Holmes and Rahe's Readjustment Rating Scale, which was modified by Hong and Jung were used. The subjects were interviewed about the life stress during the past one year. The levels of retinol, beta-carotene, vitamin C, tocopherol, HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, total cholesterol, triglyceride were measured. The subjects were divided into three groups by the stress scores. Kruskal-Wallis test was used for analysis. Dependent variables were antioxidants in each group.
RESULTS
There as no significant meaning in the comparison between each stress groups and the level of serum lipids, and between each stress group and the level of antioxidants.
CONCLUSION
The level of antioxidants was not related to stress. More studies are needed for further evaluation of the results.