Type D Personality Is Associated with the Development of Stress Cardiomyopathy Following Emotional Triggers
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Type D Personality Is Associated with the Development of Stress Cardiomyopathy Following Emotional Triggers Angelo Compare, Ph.D & Riccardo Bigi, MD & Pedro Silva Orrego, MD & Riccardo Proietti, MD & Enzo Grossi, MD & Andrew Steptoe, Ph.D Published online: 14 March 2013 # The Society of Behavioral Medicine 2013
Abstract Background Stress cardiomyopathy (SCM) can be triggered by emotional events. Recently, type D personality has been established as an independent predictor of acute cardiac adverse events. Purpose We sought to examine whether type D personality can be identified in SCM patients. Methods A case–control study with 37 SCM patients, 37 myocardial infarction (AMI) patients, who both experienced emotional triggering, and 37 SCM patients without emotional triggers was performed. The DS14 and Interview for Recent Life Events were administered. Results Twenty-eight (76 %) SCM emotional trigger patients were categorized as type D compared with 13 (43 %) SCM patients without emotional trigger and 12 (32 %) AMI patients (p
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