BACKGROUND Despite significant progress in the treatment of coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction is still the leading cause of death in the United States. As suggested by Leventhal's Self-Regulation Model of Illness, the continued high morbidity and mortality may be due to a failure to address the role of psychosocial factors such as illness representation, depression, and anxiety in ...

In this study, we investigated the relationship between tryptophan-5-hydroxytryptamine metabolism, depressive disorder, and gastrointestinal dysfunction in rats after myocardial infarction. Our goal was to elucidate the physiopathologic bases of somatic/psychiatric depression symptoms after myocardial infarction. A myocardial infarction model was established by permanent occlusion of the left a...

Exercise-induced ST-segment elevation was correlated with myocardial perfusion abnormalities and coronary artery obstruction in 35 patients. Ten patients (group 1) developed exercise ST elevation in leads without Q waves on the resting ECG. The site of ST elevation corresponded to both a reversible perfusion defect and a severely obstructed coronary artery. Associated ST-segment depression in o...

BACKGROUND Myocardial infarction is a major cause of death and morbidity in many countries, including China. The aim of this study was to analyse a Mandarin Chinese translation of the Cardiac Depression Scale for a hierarchy of items according to the criteria of Mokken scaling. FINDINGS Data from 438 Chinese participants who completed the Chinese translation of the Cardiac Depression Scale we...