Ischemic heart disease in relation with the type of behavior and the emotional state.
The relationship between the cardiovascular state, on the one hand, and the type of behavior and emotional state on the other, was investigated in a professional type community of 550 subjects (280 men and 270 women) ranging in age from 20 to 64 years. The subjects were submitted to medical examination (clinical, electrocardiographic and biochemical) for the detection of ischemic heart disease and its risk factors (arterial hypertension, smoking, over weight, hypercholesterolemia) and concomitantly to a psychologic examination consisting of anxiety test as a state and as a trait, multiple affectivity test and the test of self-rating behavioral type, for the study of the emotional state and the type of behavior. The relation between the results of the two examinations showed that ischemic heart disease (irrespective of the form) and its risk factors are associated to various extents and in different manners to the psychologic factors. Thus, significantly, ischemic heart disease was proved four times more frequent in subjects with type A behavior than in those with type B; arterial hypertension was more frequent in anxious (1.6 times) and aggressive subjects (1.4 times); overweight was more often encountered in nondepressive (2 times) and adaptable subjects (1.4 times), and in subjects with type B (1.3 times); the anxious subjects were found to smoke less than the non-anxious ones (2 times).
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N. Gh. Lupu Institute of Internal Medicine, Bucharest, Romania.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D001007:Anxiety; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D012925:Social Conformity