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Are personality traits associated with different types of chest pain in patients after myocardial infarction?
Are personality traits associated with different types of chest pain in patients after myocardial infarction?
This text introduces the hypothesis that mental factors and personality traits may be associated with different types of post-myocardial infarction chest pain.
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Hypothesis-generating for personality traits in post-MI chest pain subtypes; does not support practice changes and warrants prospective validation.
Most patients who have had an acute myocardial infarction later experience pain in the chest of one sort or another. Angina pectoris is the commonest pain, and one in or including the left anterior chest is the next commonest single entity. The factors which determine post-infarction pain are complex. Clinical observation suggests that they include mental ones. Angina pectoris is often induced by emotion, and left chest pain in patients with heart disease has long been associated with anxiety. If mental factors associated with pain after myo cardial infarction could be defined, more might be learnt of the mechanisms causing the pains and it might be possible to prevent some of them.
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