...Stella L. Kuhlmann; Volker Arolt; Wilhelm Haverkamp; Peter Martus; Andreas Ströhle; Johannes Waltenberger; Nina Rieckmann; Jacqueline Müller-Nordhorn Background: Screening for depression in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) remains controversial. There is limited data on the actual...

... personality emerged as psychometrically distinct. Although type D personality was independently associated with coronary heart disease (OR = 1.54, p = 0.044), no associations with traditional cardiovascular risk factors were found independently from depression or anxiety. Conclusions: Although type D...

...Melanie Merswolken; Sabine Siebenhuener; Kristina Orth-Gomér; Frank Zimmermann-Viehoff; Hans-Christian Deter Background: Anxiety is frequent in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and influences the course of the disease, but no randomized controlled trial has investigated the effects...

...Paul M.G. Emmelkamp; Patricia van Oppen In this report an overview is given of the contribution of cognitive approaches to behavioral medicine. The (possible) contribution of cognitive therapy is reviewed in the area of coronary heart disease, obesity, bulimia nervosa, chronic pain, benign headache...

...Pio Enrico Ricci Bitti; Paola Gremigni; Giorgio Bertolotti; Anna Maria Zotti Anger and hostility have long been considered important factors in the etiology of essential hypertension (EH) and coronary heart disease (CHD). This case-control study investigates the association of hostility...

... of control Patient-controlled analgesia Perceived pain Coronary heart disease Regular Article Psychother Psychosom 1995:64:74 81 C. Reynaert P. Janne V. Delire M. Pirard Ph. Random E. Collard E. Installé E. Coche L. Cassiers Catholic University of Louvain, Mont-Godinne Hospital, Yvoir. Belgium Key...

..., and (2) explore relations between alexithymia and TAB and its subcomponents in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Methods: 62 CHD patients were investigated 6 weeks after coronary angioplasty. Alexithymia was assessed with the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR) and the 20-item...

...Bettina Bankier; Andrew B. Littman Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in women aged over 40 years in the United States, for whom it conveys a worse prognosis than for men. Recently, psychosocial factors have been understood to represent significant risk factors...

...Margarita Beresnevaite Background: Although there is preliminary evidence that alexithymia may influence the course of coronary heart disease (CHD), there are no studies exploring attempts to modify alexithymic characteristics in cardiac patients. Method: Twenty post-myocardial infarction (MI...