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Psychosomatic Medicine, Vol 56, Issue 4 281-287, Copyright © 1994 by American Psychosomatic Society

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Vital exhaustion predicts new cardiac events after successful coronary angioplasty

WJ Kop, AP Appels, CF Mendes de Leon, HB de Swart and FW Bar
Department of Medical Psychology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, University of Limberg, The Netherlands.

Excessive tiredness is one of the most prevalent premonitory symptoms of myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death. This state is labelled as vital exhaustion and consists of three components: fatigue, increased irritability, and demoralization. Vital exhaustion has been found to be an independent risk-indicator of myocardial infarction in one prospective study and several case-control studies. It is as yet unclear whether the association between vital exhaustion and future myocardial infarction can be explained by confounding of (subclinical) coronary artery disease. Therefore, the present study investigates the predictive value of vital exhaustion for the occurrence of new cardiac events after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), while explicitly controlling for the severity of coronary artery disease. Patients with a successful PTCA were followed during 1.5 years. A new cardiac event was defined as present if one of the following end points occurred: cardiac death, myocardial infarction, coronary bypass surgery, repeat-PTCA, increase of coronary atherosclerosis, or new anginal complaints with documented ischemia. Vital exhaustion was assessed using the Maastricht Questionnaire two weeks after hospital discharge. Participants of the present study were 127 patients (mean age 55.6 +/- 9.1; 105 men, 22 women). Fifteen (35%) of the 43 exhausted patients experienced a new cardiac event, whereas 14 (17%) of the 84 not exhausted patients had a new cardiac event (OR = 2.7; CI = 1.1-6.3; p = .02). Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that vital exhaustion continued to be of predictive value when other significant risk factors for new cardiac events were controlled for (i.e., severity of coronary artery disease and hypercholesterolemia).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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