Life event stress and myocardial reinfarction: a prospective study |
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| Authors: | TENNANT, C. C. PALMER, K. J. LANGELUDDECKE, P. M. JONES, M. P. NELSON, G. |
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| Affiliation: | * Sydney University Department of Psychiatry Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, Sydney 2065, Australia
!["{dagger}"]("/math/dagger.gif") Department of Cardiology Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, Sydney 2065, Australia
!["{ddagger}"]("/math/Dagger.gif") Department of Health Information Systems Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, Sydney 2065, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Earlier studies of life event stress in coronary heart disease(CHD) have been flawed by cross-sectional design and inadequatemethods for assessing life-event stress. This 3-year prospectivestudy of acute myocardial infarct (AMI) patients reveals significantindependent associations between acute and chronic stressorsat first admission, and risk of recurrent AMI and death, occurringin the 3 years of follow-up. Relative risks of reinfarction(or death from reinfarction) in the entire sample, for acuteevents and chronic difficulties were, 2·5 and 2·3respectively and were statistically significant; When subjectsadmitted with first AMI were considered alone, relative riskswere 3·1 and 4·1 respectively. The clinical significanceof these findings is discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Life event stress myocardial reinfarction |
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