title: [Characterologic personality traits, premorbid and current mental status of patients with ischemic heart disease].
abstract: Personality characteristics, and premorbid and actual mental states were studied in 130 male coronary patients suffering from anginal attacks. Psychasthenic, stenotic and rigid personalities prevailed in the examined sample. At the same time, 69.6% of patients showed unbalanced personality manifested in character accentuation (58.2%) and psychopathy (11.4%). Mental changes (neurotic reactions and neuroses) were first recorded well in advance of coronary symptoms in 72.4% of the patients. They were usually found in unbalanced personalities and grew worse after the onset of first signs of coronary insufficiency.
mesh_terms: D002605:Character; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000150:complications; D010551:Personality; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Kharakterologicheskie osobennosti lichnosti, premorbidnoe i aktual'noe sostoianie psikhiki u bol'nykh ishemicheskoĭ bolezn'iu serdtsa.