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Type D Personality Boosts Heart Disease
Risk
(Reuters Health, 5/10/06)
Dr. Johan Denollet of University Hospital, Antwerp, and
associates, gave 337 heart disease patients a psychological
stress questionnaire and Type D personality assessment; then
followed them for 5 years. The investigators found that
subjects with Type D personalities, characterized by “chronic
negative emotions” and “the tendency to inhibit self
expression,” had a much greater risk of death or heart attack
than the other patients, regardless of the degree of their
psychological stress. These findings suggest that health care
providers should take personality type into account when
treating high-risk cardiac patients.
(American Journal of Cardiology,
April 2006) |
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