Association of perceived stress with risks of subsequent illness and death among elderly according to Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES)

Resumen

Chronic exposure to stress hormones (adrenaline and cortisol) during any stage of life has been found to impact brain structures involved in cognition and mental health (Lupien et al., Citation2009). Mental stress has also been associated with an adverse effect on disease burden and multimorbidity (Prior et al., Citation2018). People with elevated stress levels have a poor prognosis for their cardiovascular and metabolic syndrome-related diseases (Prior et al., Citation2016). Higher stress-associated mortality rates have also been observed, even after adjusting for multimorbidity (Keller et al., Citation2012; Prior et al., Citation2018; Russ et al., Citation2012). The association between perceptions of stress and mortality has received little attention (Hounkpatin et al., Citation2024; Vasunilashorn et al., Citation2013) despite the hypothesis that there is an association between the events that perceived stress triggers and cardiovascular mortality (Dimsdale, Citation2008).