[Effect of characterologic risk factors of ischemic heart disease on lipid metabolism indices in young persons during adaptation to long-term psychoemotional and physical loads].

A study of changes in lipid metabolism in young men throughout their adaptation to lasting physical and mental/emotional stress demonstrated an increase in blood cholesterol, triglycerides, cholesterol of low and of very low density lipoproteins, and a significant decrease in cholesterol of high density lipoproteins. This period of time particularly favors the activation of atherogenic developments in the body. Changes were the greatest in people of behavior type A. They are assumed to be living under constant emotional stress because of their specific character traits, hence the marked shifts in their blood lipid composition.