Key result
Type D personality in HF is linked to underreporting cardiac symptoms due to social inhibition.
Answers are grounded in this paper and cite their sources.
Alerts clinicians to potential symptom underreporting in Type D HF; leaves open whether interventions targeting inhibition improve reporting or outcomes.
See article on page 814
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Steptoe et al. (2007) conducted an editorial in Coronary heart disease and heart failure. Type D personality was evaluated. Type D personality in patients with heart failure is associated with a reluctance to report cardiac symptoms due to social inhibition, potentially jeopardizing clinical care.
Synapse has enriched 10 related papers. Consider them for comparative context: