title: [Coronary heart disease in hospitalized mental patients. An electrocardiographic prevalence study].
abstract: Altogether 1707 permanently hospitalized patients aged from 40 to 69, from 8 psychiatric hospitals in Germany, were investigated for the occurrence of electrocardiographic signs of coronary heart diseases. ECG changes which indicate a past infarction or a coronary insufficiency with great reliability were found almost not at all in patients under the age of 50, in men aged from 50 to 59 years in 7.0%, and aged from 60-69 in 11.8% of cases. In women of corresponding ages the figures were 3.8 and 10.8% respectively. Compared with a non-psychiatric population, there were suggestions of a slightly higher prevalence of coronary heart diseases in the psychiatric patients.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000453:epidemiology; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000453:epidemiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors
vernacular_title: Koronare Herzkrankheiten bei hospitalisierten psychisch Kranken. Eine elektrokardiographische Prävalenzstudie