Mental illness and ischemic heart disease: analysis of psychiatric morbidity.
In this study we analyze from a cardiologic and psychiatric point of view a consecutive sample of 194 patients treated in a cardiology outpatient unit. A psychiatric morbidity of 44.8% is found, expressing itself fundamentally as depression and anxiety neurosis. It is observed how the presence of chest pain significantly conditions the appearance of psychiatric disturbance, there being, moreover, a tendency in the same direction with increasing degrees of impairment of cardiac function. Certain personal and sociocultural factors also play a significant role in the development of mental illness in these patients.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000523:psychology; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000523:psychology; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000523:psychology; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors