LIFE EVENTS AND MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION |
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| Authors: | G. MAGNI A. CORFINI F. BERTO R. RIZZARDO S. BOMBARDELLI G. MIRAGLIA |
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| Affiliation: | Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Padua School of Medicine Padua, Italy;Research Follow, Department of Cardiology, University of Padua School of Medicine, Padua, Italy;Consultant Psychologist, Department of Cardiology. University ot Padua School of Medicine Padua Italy;Research Assistant Professor. Department of Psychiatry, University of Padua School of Medicine. Padua, Italy;Research Fellow. Department of Cardiology, University of Padua Sctioo! Of Medicine. Padua. Italy;Research Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiology, University of Padua School of Medicine, Padua, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Life events reported to have occurred twelve months before the onset of the illness were compared in 55 in-patients who had a first episode of myocardial infarction and 55 control in-patients matched for age, sex, marital status and social class and afflicted with acute abdomen, trauma and multiple trauma. The Paykel interview for Recent Life Events was used. Myocardial infarction patients reported significantly more previous events than the control group (p<0.001) with more undesirable (p<0.01) and uncontrolled (p<0.01) events. Moreover, myocardial infarction patients had significantly more events (p<0.01) which had an “objective negative impact” (rated as being traumatic). These findings are consistent with the view that certain recent life events have a positive association with the onset of a first episode of myocardial infarction. |
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| Keywords: | Life events myocardial infarction undesirable events uncontrolled events |
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