The risk of type a mediated coronary artery disease in different populations.
Using angiographic evidence of coronary artery disease, we have examined whether certain populations were particularly susceptible for risk engendered by Type A personality. Two hundred three men were studied with the Jenkins Activity Surveys; 103 of them were also studied with the Rosenman semistructured interview. The extent of vessel disease was found unrelated to Type A in each of the three ethnic groups studied--Irish Catholic, Italian Catholic, and white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Likewise, no relationship between Type A and vessel disease was discerned in high depressed, low depressed, high stressed, or low stressed individuals. Finally, we examined whether cardiac symptomatology could affect any relationship found between Type A personality and vessel disease. No significant relationship was discerned in patients who had experienced or had not experienced a myocardial infarction or in patients with mild, moderate, or severe exertional angina.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland / Q000208:ethnology; D007558:Italy / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D012306:Risk; D014481:United States