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Psychosocial factors, including depression and anxiety, are significant independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease progression and adverse outcomes, highlighting the importance of psychological assessment and support.
Psychosocial factors play a major role in the development of cardiovascular diseases and affect the efficacy of cardiac treatment and rehabilitation.
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Psychological assessment may aid CVD risk evaluation; leaves open intervention benefits pending randomized trials.
Psychosocial factors play an undoubtedly important role in the development of cardiovascular diseases and can also highly affect efficacy and outcome of cardiac treatment or the success of rehabilitation. These factors are proven to have a major role in patient evaluation in two ways: (1) risk factors are important in establishing prognosis and/or as (2) indicators of need for further specific psychological interventions.
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Noémi Császár (2014) conducted a review in Cardiovascular Disease. Psychological Assessment and Support was evaluated. Psychosocial factors, including depression and anxiety, are significant independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease progression and adverse outcomes, highlighting the importance of psychological assessment and support.
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