Key result
A low level of anxiety was significantly associated with higher all-cause mortality in patients with coronary heart disease (58.7% in the lowest anxiety quartile vs 14% in the highest; p=0.001).
Why the study?
Behavioral and physiological risk factors worsen CHD prognosis, and the study investigated whether anxiety is associated with long-term all-cause mortality in CHD patients.
Does anxiety level affect all-cause mortality in patients with coronary heart disease?
Cohort (n=180)
Does anxiety level affect all-cause mortality in patients with coronary heart disease?
Absolute Event Rate: 58.7% vs 14%
p-value: p=0.001
Lower levels of anxiety were paradoxically associated with higher long-term all-cause mortality in patients with coronary heart disease.
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Low anxiety predicted higher long-term mortality in CHD; leaves open mechanisms and requires prospective validation before any clinical consideration.
Deter et al. (2023) conducted a cohort in Coronary Heart Disease (n=180). Low level of anxiety vs. High level of anxiety was evaluated on All-cause mortality (p=0.001). A low level of anxiety was significantly associated with higher all-cause mortality in patients with coronary heart disease (58.7% in the lowest anxiety quartile vs 14% in the highest; p=0.001).
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