Informational assets of glucose tolerance test in evaluation of endurance to psychoemotional stress

Psychoemotional stresses were simulated in male volunteers in order to evaluate the predictive value of the glucose-tolerance test patterns. As was found, the predictive information is provided by the following parameters: Rafalsky and Boduen coefficients, glucose levels during 60-min testing, and the hypoinsulinemia coefficient. Operator's performance under the condition of time constraint is directly dependent on the insulin content. Based on results of the discriminative analysis key guidelines for classification of individuals by their resistance to the psychoemotional factor were proposed. In view of the informational assets the authors suggest that this approach should be more actively used in development of programs of functional testing of humans in extreme environments. Analysis of determined relationships gave rise to the supposition that desensitization of cell membrane receptors to insulin is the most probable cause for the detriment of the resistance to psychoemotional stresses.