PSYCHIATRIC ANTECEDENTS OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
| Autor: | David M. Fergusson, Geoffrey Bianchi, James Walshe |
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| Rok vydání: | 1978 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Myocardial Infarction Anxiety Life Change Events Cigarette smoking medicine Insomnia Humans Matched sample Affective Symptoms Myocardial infarction Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged Depression business.industry Anhedonia General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Female medicine.symptom business Psychosocial Stress Psychological Personality |
| Zdroj: | Medical Journal of Australia. 1:297-301 |
| ISSN: | 1326-5377 0025-729X |
| Popis: | Forty consecutive survivors after myocardial infarction (MI) were compared by means of a semistructured interview with a matched sample of 40 controls in respect of various psychosocial factors. The MI group reported a much higher prior occurrence of symptoms of anxiety and depression. The complaints included being tired, irritable, restless, upset and anxious, plus insomnia and anhedonia. Preceding stressful life events were about 2 1/2 times as common with the MI group. However, long-term persanality traits which were not recent additions due to psychiatric change before MI did not strongly discriminate between the two groups, and recognized variables such as cigarette smoking had a lesser association with MI. Similar results were obtained when information about each patient and each control was supplied by a close informant. |
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