[Cholesterolemia and arterial pressure levels. Relationship with different chronic stress configurations]

Several experimental studies refer to the relationship between chronic stress, cholesterolaemia levels and variations in the arterial blood pressure. Our objective is to establish a significant statistical correlation between stress factors, hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia in the studied people. 146 agents were tested among teachers an others employees from the National University of Río Cuarto, who voluntarily went clinical control, reporting data such as arterial pressure, cholesterolaemia, patholgoic records; an standized survey was done considering potentially stress factors, grouped in four different types of stress: (1)-psychoalimentary, (2)-pure psychic, (3)-laboral, (4)-psychofamiliar, giving each of them a value whose addition gane a stress potential factor. The results show that 45.89% of the people studied have hypercholesterolaemia (higher 200 mg% with a mean 237.09 +/- 29.97) being significantly higher (P = 0.001) in the group of employees older than 40 years old., 7.53% of the people showed high arterial pressure, and the 90.90% of this people have hypercholesterolaemia. The hypercholesterolaemic group showed a marked incidence of stress rates higher, with respect to the total people in the four types of stress studied. Significative higher values were observed in the laboral and familiar stress types coinciding with the hypertense group of individuals. According to the collected data we conclude that the relationship between cholesterolaemia, arterial pressure and chronic stress varies with the different types of stress considered, and seem adequate index of stressors levels of studied people.