Smoking status and Type D personality affect the clinical outcome in patients with recent myocardial infarction undergone to primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Background: Smoking cessation is correlated to several psychological, social, biological, and pharmacological aspects. It's important to identify differences concerning personality traits in order to increase chances to discontinue cigarette smoking. The combined tendency to experience negative emotions and to inhibit the expression of these emotions is indicated as “Type D personality”, already known as an independent risk marker for worse clinical outcome in cardiac diseases. Despite this effect of Type D personality on cardiovascular diseases, it is still unclear whether this trait of personality may influence smoking cessation after a myocardial infarct ion.
Source: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases : NMCD - Category: Nutrition Authors: Source Type: research