{"id":2739,"date":"2012-05-02T14:36:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T18:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2012-05-02T17:40:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T21:40:44","slug":"study-looks-at-relationship-between-personality-type-and-onset-of-cardiovascular-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/05\/study-looks-at-relationship-between-personality-type-and-onset-of-cardiovascular-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Study looks at relationship between personality type and onset of cardiovascular disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em>Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics<\/em> press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"heart\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"275\" \/>An epidemiological study that was performed in Germany and published in the current issue of <em>Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics<\/em> disclosed interesting findings as to <strong>the relationship between personality type and onset of cardiovascular disease<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Type D personality is considered as an independent risk factor for morbidity and mortality in cardiovascular patients and a vulnerability factor for distress in the general population<\/strong>. Because representative community studies are rare, a group of German investigators sought to determine the prevalence of type D personality and its relationship with demographic characteristics, different features of mental disorders, cardiovascular risk factors, health behavior, endothelial function and cardiovascular biomarkers in the general population. The prevalence of type D personality and its correlates were analyzed cross-sectionally in a population-based sample of 5,000 Mid-Europeans aged 35\u201374 years from the Gutenberg Health Study. The prevalence of type D personality was 22.2% without remarkable differences in sex distribution. <strong>Type D subjects were characterized by lower socioeconomic status, lack of a partnership, increased depression, anxiety, depersonalization and health care utilization<\/strong>. Despite its strong association with mental disorders, type D personality emerged as psychometrically distinct. Although type D personality was independently associated with coronary heart disease (OR = 1.54, p = 0.044), no associations with traditional cardiovascular risk factors were found independently from depression or anxiety.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Although type D personality is strongly associated with depression, anxiety, impaired mental and somatic health status, and increased health care utilization, the type D construct seems to comprise dysfunctional personality patterns not covered by depression and anxiety scales<\/strong>. Beyond these associations, the pathways of the cardiotoxic impact of type D personality remain to be elucidated. There is a need for prospective population studies on potential links between type D personality and cardiac disease.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Full bibliographic information<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Beutel, M.E. ; Wiltink, J. ; Till, Y. ; Wild, P.S. ; M\u00fcnzel, T. ; Ojeda, F.M. ; Zeller, T. ; Schnabel, R.B. ; Lackner, K. ; Blettner, M. ; Zwiener, I. ; Michal, M. &#8220;Type D Personality as a Cardiovascular Risk Marker in the General Population: Results from the Gutenberg Health Study&#8221;. <em>Psychother Psychosom<\/em> 2012;81:108-117<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics press release: An epidemiological study that was performed in Germany and published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics disclosed interesting findings&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/05\/study-looks-at-relationship-between-personality-type-and-onset-of-cardiovascular-disease\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10],"tags":[14,35,32,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}