Psychological Risk Factors for Cardiac Events
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There is abundant evidence that depression, anxiety, and anger increase the risk for cardiac events in patients with coronary heart disease. Denollet and Brutsaert are to be commended for contributing a generally well-conducted study of psychological predictors of cardiac end points to this rapidly growing literature. They have found that the combination of “negative affectivity” and social inhibition predicts cardiac events independently of established medical risk factors. Prospective studies such as theirs, in which potential confounders are adequately measured and cardiac end points carefully documented, are needed to substantiate the effects of psychological factors on medical outcomes after acute myocardial infarction (MI).
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