Angina and mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia

Mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia is a common phenomenon in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and an emerging prognostic factor. Mental stress ischemia is correlated with ambulatory ischemia. However, whether it is related to angina symptoms during daily life has not been examined. We assessed angina frequency (past month) in 98 post-myocardial infarction (MI) subjects (age 18-60 years) using the Seattle Angina Questionnaire. Patients underwent [(99m)Tc]sestamibi SPECT perfusion imaging at rest, after mental stress, and after exercise/pharmacological stress. Summed scores of perfusion abnormalities were obtained by observer-independent software. A summed difference score (SDS), the difference between stress and rest scores, was used to quantify myocardial ischemia under both stress conditions. The mean age was 50 years, 50% were female and 60% were non-white. After adjustment for age, sex, smoking, CAD severity, depressive, anger, and anxiety symptoms, each 1-point increase in mental stress-SDS was associated with 1.73-unit increase in the angina frequency score (95% CI: 0.09-3.37) and 17% higher odds of being in a higher angina frequency category (OR: 1.17, 95% CI: 1.00-1.38). Depressive symptoms were associated with 12% higher odds of being in a higher angina frequency category (OR: 1.12, 95% CI: 1.03-1.21). In contrast, exercise/pharmacological stress-induced SDS was not associated with angina frequency. Among young and middle-aged post-MI patients, myocardial ischemia induced by mental stress in the lab, but not by exercise/pharmacological stress, is associated with higher frequency of retrospectively reported angina during the day. Psychosocial stressors related to mental stress ischemia may be important contributory factor to daily angina..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:78

Enthalten in:

Journal of psychosomatic research - 78(2015), 5, Seite 433

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pimple, Pratik [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Amit J [Sonstige Person]
Rooks, Cherie [Sonstige Person]
Douglas Bremner, J [Sonstige Person]
Nye, Jonathon [Sonstige Person]
Ibeanu, Ijeoma [Sonstige Person]
Raggi, Paolo [Sonstige Person]
Vaccarino, Viola [Sonstige Person]

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

BKL:

44.91

77.70

77.84

Themen:

Angina Pectoris - etiology
Angina Pectoris - psychology
Anxiety - complications
Coronary Artery Disease - complications
Exercise - psychology
Myocardial Infarction - complications
Myocardial Ischemia - complications
Radiopharmaceuticals - diagnostic use
Stress, Psychological - complications
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon - methods

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doi:

10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.02.007

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1965965490