title: [Personality characteristics and the late prognosis of myocardial infarct (results of a 5-year follow-up)].
abstract: Prospective five-year follow-up of patients with ischemic heart disease who had suffered from macrofocal myocardial infarction between the age of 29 and 54 and who had been previously examined by a psychologist was conducted. Within the five-year period, myocardial infarction recurred in 29 patients (it was fatal in 10), sudden death occurred in 13 patients. Total mortality was 25.5%. The incidence of recurrent myocardial infarction, the frequency of sudden death, and the total mortality of ischemic heart disease were 3, 2.3 and 3 times higher, respectively, in patients classed according to the personality features as type I which is close to type A (63 persons) than in patients (27 persons) possessing premorbidly personality features close to type B (type II). The importance of premorbid personality features in the remote prognosis in myocardial infarction is suggested.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000453:epidemiology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D012306:Risk
vernacular_title: Lichnostnye osobennosti i otdalennyĭ prognoz infarkta miokarda (rezul'taty 5-letnego nabliudeniia).