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

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

31647268

Department(s)

Fellows and Residents

Document Type

Article

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