Open AccessPoor glucose regulation is associated with declines in well-being among older men, but not women.
Author(s) -
Konstantinos Mantantzis,
Johanna Drewelies,
Sandra Duezel,
Nikolaus Buchmann,
Elisabeth SteinhagenThiessen,
Gert G. Wagner,
Naftali Raz,
Ulman Lindenberger,
Ilja Demuth,
Denis Gerstorf
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychology and aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.468
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1939-1498
pISSN - 0882-7974
DOI - 10.1037/pag0000404
Subject(s) - psycinfo , psychology , insulin resistance , cognition , blood sugar regulation , gerontology , diabetes mellitus , medline , endocrinology , medicine , psychiatry , political science , law
Glucose regulation is a key aspect of healthy aging and has been linked to brain functioning and cognition. Here we examined the role of glucose regulation for within-person longitudinal trajectories of well-being. We applied growth models to data from the Berlin Aging Study II (N = 955), using insulin resistance as an index of glucoregulatory capacity. We found that poor glucose regulation (higher insulin resistance) was consistently associated with lower levels of well-being among older men but not women. Our study provides novel evidence for the relevance of glucose regulation for well-being among older men. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).