Personality, Disease Severity, and the Risk of Long-term Cardiac Events in Patients With a Decreased Ejection Fraction After Myocardial Infarction | Zendy

Johan Denollet | Zendy; Dirk L. Brutsaert | Zendy

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Personality, Disease Severity, and the Risk of Long-term Cardiac Events in Patients With a Decreased Ejection Fraction After Myocardial Infarction

Author(s) -

Johan Denollet,

Dirk L. Brutsaert

Publication year - 1998

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.97.2.167

Subject(s) - type d personality , medicine , ejection fraction , negative affectivity , myocardial infarction , social inhibition , cardiology , anxiety , anger , personality , depression (economics) , relative risk , heart failure , confidence interval , psychiatry , psychology , social psychology , social anxiety , economics , macroeconomics

Patients with myocardial infarction (MI) with a decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) have a poor prognosis, but the role of emotional stress in prognosis is not known. We hypothesized that emotional stress in these patients (1) is unrelated to the severity of cardiac disorder, (2) predicts cardiac events, and (3) is a function of basic personality traits.

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