title: [Study on the characteristics of personality, emotion and the plasma arginine vasopressin levels in patients with Gan Yang Shang Kang Zheng].
abstract: Eighty patients with Gan Yang Shang Kang Zheng (GYSKZ) and the related Zheng were questioned with three psychological scales: Type A Behavior Inventory, STAI and SDS and plasma AVP (arginine ressopressin) levels were determined by RIA. The TAB, S-AI, T-AI scores and plasma AVP levels of the patients with GYSKZ increased consistently and the changes of all parameters in different diseases in the same Zheng were similar. The results suggest that in patients with GYSKZ, type A behavior is the dominant personality and anxiety is the chief emotional disorder. Patients with GYSKZ are in the state of high level of psychological stress. Patients with GYSKZ and GHSYZ have some common pathophysiological basis.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Combined Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Hunan Medical University, Changsha.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D001127:Arginine Vasopressin / Q000097:blood*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000097:blood / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014434:Type A Personality; D014653:Vascular Headaches / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D001127:Arginine Vasopressin