Metabolic Syndrome in Older Women: A Stress Management Treatment Model

Abstract

The objectives of this paper was to see if Lipp Stress Control Training will also promote beneficial changes in risk factors with metabolic syndrome, that is defined by the presence of several risk factors such as glucose intolerance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, as well as an inadequate diet, sedentariness, tobacco use, alcoholism, and excessive stress. The study involved 45 older women with MetS, ranging in age from 60 to 75 years old.Lipp Stress Control Training was given to them once a week, consisting of eight two-hour sessions with five groups of eight individuals. Stress levels were observed to have decreased significantly (p=0.005) after the intervention. Total cholesterol (p=0.012), LDL (p=0.0133), and triglycerides (p=0.05) were also significantly lower in the group before and after treatment. Stress Control Training lowered some MetS risk variables, such as stress, and may have contributed to MetS components like glucose, triglycerides, total cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol being reduced.  Stress Control Training will be a helpful, psychological therapy model representing a preventative approach for coronary illnesses, insofar as it could minimise the risk variables implicated in MetS, if the current data are verified in future research with a greater number of participants.