Dehesh et al. has researched the prevalence and association of anxiety and depression among diabetes patients and found that high anxiety scores correlated with high LDL and high triglyceride levels and came to the conclusion that depression and anxiety may increase the levels of circulating catecholamines and increase the lipoprotein lipase activity leading to a rise in cholesterol and triglyceride levels23. The gene discussed is LPL; the disease is diabetes mellitus.