Borderline personality disorder traits associate with midlife cardiometabolic risk.
Publication/Presentation Date
3-1-2020
Abstract
There is growing interest in relationships between borderline personality disorder (BPD) pathology and physical health outcomes. Diagnostic BPD and BPD-related traits, for instance, have been shown to associate with self-reported cardiovascular disease and various cardiometabolic risk factors. However, potential confounding of these associations by comorbid depression, which itself contributes to risk for heart disease, remains unresolved, and previous research is limited by nearly uniform reliance on self-reported health status. In the present study, we examine the association of BPD traits and contemporaneously assessed depressive mood with instrumented measures of cardiometabolic risk in a midlife community sample (
Volume
11
Issue
2
First Page
151
Last Page
156
ISSN
1949-2723
Published In/Presented At
Barber, T. A., Ringwald, W. R., Wright, A. G. C., & Manuck, S. B. (2020). Borderline personality disorder traits associate with midlife cardiometabolic risk. Personality disorders, 11(2), 151–156. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000373
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
31647268
Department(s)
Fellows and Residents
Document Type
Article