Why the study?
Are components of the anger-hostility complex associated with symptom reporting and disease severity in men with coronary artery disease?
Population
97 men with stenosed coronary arteries (coronary artery disease)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
Two years
Authors
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Anxiety and depression may warrant priority over anger-hostility in CAD symptom assessment; leaves open links to angiographic severity.
Are components of the anger-hostility complex associated with symptom reporting and disease severity in men with coronary artery disease?
In men with coronary artery disease, anxiety and depression are stronger predictors of symptom reporting than anger or hostility, and reported symptoms do not correlate with angiographic disease severity.
Ramsay et al. (2001) studied this question.
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