Table 4.

Association between stress scores and composite CV risk score, stratified by median emotion regulation score, Yale Stress Center cohort 2007–12, N=528.

	Full Sample		High Emotion Regulation		Low Emotion Regulation
	ß	p-value	ß	p-value	ß	p-value
Cumulative Life Events
Unadjusted	0.054	<0.001	0.056	0.002	0.049	0.003
Adjusted*	0.034	0.005	0.033	0.064	0.033	0.052
Chronic Stress Score
Unadjusted	0.034	0.009	0.036	0.083	0.033	0.064
Adjusted*	0.028	0.029	0.018	0.38	0.042	0.021
Perceived Stress Scale
Unadjusted	0.020	0.027	−0.004	0.80	0.038	0.004
Adjusted*	0.020	0.021	0.007	0.67	0.032	0.014
Composite Stress Score
Unadjusted	0.145	<0.001	0.081	0.36	0.185	0.006
Adjusted*	0.116	0.003	0.048	0.59	0.206	0.005

^*Adjusted model includes age, sex, race, educational attainment, and smoking.