Type D personality and cardiac mortality in patients with chronic heart failure
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.12.090
Type D personality and cardiac mortality in patients with chronic heart failure
Abstract
Background: Clinical predictors of cardiac mortality in chronic heart failure (CHF) are established, but less is known about chronic psychological predictors. Therefore, we examined the prognostic value of Type D personality (tendency to experience negative feelings and inhibit self-expression) in CHF patients.
Methods and results: Consecutive systolic CHF outpatients (n=232) filled in the Type D Scale (DS14) at baseline. Socio-demographic and clinical data were obtained from the medical record/cardiologist. The primary endpoint was total cardiac mortality (follow-up=30.7+/-11.1 months). Late (>6 months) cardiac mortality was the secondary endpoint. Type D patients had a higher incidence of total cardiac mortality (15/48=31.3%) as compared to non Type D patients (32/184=17.4%), OR=2.16;95%CI:1.05-4.43, p=.04. Type D personality was a near significant independent predictor of total cardiac mortality (OR=1.40;95%CI:0.93-4.29, p=.08), and a significant independent predictor of late cardiac mortality, adjusting for sex, age and left ventricular ejection fraction (OR=2.34;95%CI:1.05-5.26, p=.04).
Conclusions: Type D personality was a near-significant independent predictor of total cardiac mortality, and a significant independent predictor of late cardiac mortality, adjusting for socio-demographics and disease-severity. These findings suggest that Type D personality, a chronic psychological risk factor, is of importance in long-term prognosis in CHF.
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