title: [Psychocardiology: how heart and mind interact].
abstract: Patients with heart disease often suffer from psychological comorbidities in addition to various physical impairments. These mental disorders reduce the quality of life and have a negative effect on the development and course of heart diseases. Particularly the occurrence of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may lead to an increase in hospitalization-, morbidity-, and mortality rates. Early diagnosis of psychological disorders in patients with cardiovascular disease and consecutive treatment is therefore desirable. In this context, psychocardiology addresses the interaction of cardiac disease and psychological alterations as well as the influencing psychosocial factors.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg.
authors.forename: Maxie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bunz
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg.
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kindermann
authors.affiliation: Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Karbach
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg.
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wedegärtner
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Böhm
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg.
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lenski
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*