Do stress reactions cause abdominal obesity and comorbidities?

By P. Björntorp. Obesity Reviews, 2001

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Physiology

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In Behavioral Neuroscience

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Citations in the corpus

• Depression as a risk factor for the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus. A meta-analysis (2006, neutral): “Depression is associated with increased activity of the HPA axis and the sympathetic nervous system [24], resulting in increased cortisol release and increased release of the catecholamines epinephrine and norepinephrine.”
• Social Psychophysiology for Social and Personality Psychology (2011, neutral): “, 1997; Capellino, & Straub, 2008; Priftis, Papadimitriou, Nicolaidou & Chrousos, 2009), metabolic disorders (e.g., diabetes, metabolic syndrome; Bjorntorp, 2001; Kemmer et al., 1986), cancer (e.”
• Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviors (2010, background): “These stresses trigger a host of compulsive behaviors such as overeating, drinking, and smoking (Björntorp 2001, Marmot 2004).”
• Stress and Obesity. (2019, background): “This leaves us in a situation where the excess energy has nowhere to go and tends to ultimately be deposited as body fat (Björntorp 2001).”
• Stress, eating and the reward system. (2007, background): “These results demonstrate a state of ‘leptin resistant’ obesity that is caused by glucocorticoid related leptin stimulation [52].”
• Subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue: structural and functional differences (2010, background): “Chronic stress leads to elevated cortesol levels that may lead to accumulation of VAT (6).”
• Consciousness: A Mathematical Treatment of the Global Neuronal Workspace Model (2005, background): “In this regard, Bjorntorp (2001) finds that embedding psychosocial stress is a principal determinant of obesity at both the individual and population levels. Somewhat less conclusively, a lively debate rages regarding various possible subforms of psychopathy, a mental disorder characterized by a lon”
• Moving to Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Economic Self-Sufficiency and Health From a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment (2004, background): “…8 vouchers were less distressed suggests that there were likely to have been some health benefits for the Section 8 group relative to the control group, though they were too 68 Carpenter, Hasin, Allison, and Faith, 2000; Faith, Matz, and Jorge, 2002; Friedman and Brownell, 1995; Bjorntorp, 2001.”
• Weight stigma is stressful. A review of evidence for the Cyclic Obesity/Weight-Based Stigma model. (2014, background): “Indeed, a hallmark symptom of Cushing’s syndrome is abdominal fat accumulation (Bjorntorp, 2001; Shibli-Rahhal et al., 2006), which is reversed by correcting cortisol levels (Bjorntorp, 2001).”