Open AccessInadequate Response to Treatment in Coronary Heart Disease
Author(s) -
Johan Denollet,
Johan Vaes,
Dirk L. Brutsaert
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.102.6.630
Subject(s) - type d personality , medicine , ejection fraction , myocardial infarction , negative affectivity , social inhibition , depression (economics) , heart failure , anxiety , cardiology , distress , quality of life (healthcare) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , economics , social anxiety , nursing , macroeconomics
Improvement in treatment of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) has caused longer survival but also an increase in the number of patients at risk for subsequent cardiac events and impaired quality of life (QOL). We hypothesized that chronic emotional distress confers an increased risk of poor outcome despite appropriate treatment.
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