Emotional Eating and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Police Force: The Carolina Blue Project

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  • Wu, Ya-Ke
    • Affiliation: School of Nursing
  • Pacchioni, Tany G.
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Gehi, Anil K.
    • Affiliation: School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
  • Fitzgerald, Katherine E.
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology
  • Tailor, Divya V.
    • Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Biostatistics
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  • There is an association between emotional eating and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors; however, little is known about this association in the police force. This study explores the associations between emotional eating and CVD risk factors in law enforcement officers in North Carolina. Four hundred and five officers completed The Emotional Eating Scale, and 221 of them completed the assessment for CVD-related markers. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation, and multiple linear regression analyses were performed. Emotional eating in response to anger was significantly positively associated with body weight (β = 1.51, t = 2.07, p = 0.04), diastolic blood pressure (β = 0.83, t = 2.18, p = 0.03), and mean arterial pressure (β = 0.84, t = 2.19, p = 0.03) after adjusting for age and use of blood pressure medicine. Emotional eating in response to depression was significantly positively associated with triglycerides (β = 5.28, t = 2.49, p = 0.02), while the emotional eating in response to anxiety was significantly negatively associated with triglycerides (β = −11.42, t = −2.64, p = 0.01), after adjusting for age and use of cholesterol medicine. Our findings offer new insights to address emotional eating and lower CVD risk in law enforcement officers.
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  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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  • 21
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  • Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

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