Key result
Type A behavior, anger, and hostility were not found to have a meaningful clinical relationship with the development of cardiovascular disease based on a review of existing systematic reviews.
Why the study?
Do Type A behavior, anger, and hostility increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease?
Do Type A behavior, anger, and hostility increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease?
This review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses finds no meaningful clinical relationship between Type A behavior, anger, or hostility and the development of cardiovascular disease.
No support for targeting Type A traits in CVD prevention; challenges prior assumptions and leaves open roles for other psychosocial factors.
Type A behavior, anger, and hostility have all been described as psychosocial risk factors or potential risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, in the populations evaluated, the methods used to measure these traits and the endpoints used to determine outcomes have varied widely. The results of these studies have also been quite disparate. The present article reviews data from all the existing quantitative (meta-analytic) and qualitative systematic review articles that cover this topic, using the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) criteria. We conclude that the existing data do not support a meaningful clinical relationship between current measurements of these traits and the development of CVD.
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Schulman et al. (2007) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease (CVD). Type A behavior, anger, and hostility was evaluated on Development of CVD. Type A behavior, anger, and hostility were not found to have a meaningful clinical relationship with the development of cardiovascular disease based on a review of existing systematic reviews.
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