American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 105, Issue 11 , Pages 1555-1560 , 1 June 2010

Anger, Suppressed Anger, and Risk of Adverse Events in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

  • Johan Denollet, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Center of Research on Psychology in Somatic diseases, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
    • Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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  • Yori Gidron, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Christiaan J. Vrints, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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  • Viviane M. Conraads, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Received 7 December 2009 ,Revised 13 January 2010 ,Accepted 13 January 2010.

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    MACE as function of anger (a) and suppressed anger (b); cardiac death/MI as function of anger (c) and suppressed anger (d).

    MACE as function of anger (a) and suppressed anger (b); cardiac death/MI as function of anger (c) and suppressed anger (d).

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    Suppressed anger (a), MACE (b) and cardiac death/MI (c) as function of Type D personality. Number of patients with cardiac event/number of patients in subgroup presented below each bar. * 95% Confiden

    Suppressed anger (a), MACE (b) and cardiac death/MI (c) as function of Type D personality. Number of patients with cardiac event/number of patients in subgroup presented below each bar. * 95% Confidence interval 2.70 to 8.82, p <0.0001; † 95% confidence interval 1.73 to 3.90, p <0.0001; ‡ 95% confidence interval 2.32 to 6.91, p <0.0001.

 This study was supported by Vici grant 453-04-004 from The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (The Hague, The Netherlands) to Dr. Denollet.

PII: S0002-9149(10)00101-3

doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.01.015

American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 105, Issue 11 , Pages 1555-1560 , 1 June 2010

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