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Attitudes and cardiovascular disease.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Relationships between positive psychological constructs and health outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease: A systematic review.International journal of cardiology · 2015Pooled it
- Positive Psychology Interventions for Patients With Heart Disease: A Preliminary Randomized Trial.PsychosomaticsTrial
- Physical health and cognitive ability factors in predicting retirement adjustment based on machine learning approach: results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Adherence to rehabilitation exercise and influencing factors among people with acute stroke: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding air pollution among traffic polices in Dhaka city, Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Social Determinants, Cardiovascular Disease, and Health Care Cost: A Nationwide Study in the United States Using Machine Learning.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
- Do health behaviors mediate associations between personality traits and diabetes incidence?Annals of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Optimism may moderate screening mammogram frequency in Medicare: A longitudinal study.Medicine · 2019Observational
- Psychological Traits, Heart Rate Variability, and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Healthy Aging Women-The Women's Health Initiative.Psychosomatic medicine · 2019Article
- Personality traits and diabetes incidence among postmenopausal women.Menopause (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- Optimism, pessimism, cynical hostility, and biomarkers of metabolic function in the Women's Health Initiative.Journal of diabetes · 2018Article
- Are Optimism and Cynical Hostility Associated with Smoking Cessation in Older Women?Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2017Article
- Optimism moderates psychophysiological responses to stress in older people with Type 2 diabetes.Psychophysiology · 2017Article
- Optimism, Cynical Hostility, Falls, and Fractures: The Women's Health Initiative Observational Study (WHI-OS).Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2017Observational
- Predictors of Optimal Cognitive Aging in 80+ Women: The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2016Article
- Aging Well: Observations From the Women's Health Initiative Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2016Article
- Psychosocial Clusters and their Associations with Well-Being and Health: An Empirical Strategy for Identifying Psychosocial Predictors Most Relevant to Racially/Ethnically Diverse Women's Health.Clinical medicine insights. Women's health · 2016Article
- Optimism's Explicative Role for Chronic Diseases.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Review
- Racial/Ethnic Differences in Cardiovascular Symptoms in Four Major Racial/Ethnic Groups of Midlife Women: A Secondary Analysis.Women & health · 2015Article
- An exploratory mixed methods analysis of adherence predictors following acute coronary syndrome.Psychology, health & medicine · 2015Article
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Abstract
Psychological attitudes are prospectively related to cardiovascular disease (CVD), but a causal relationship has not been demonstrated. Trait optimism/pessimism (positive or negative future expectation, respectively), and cynical hostility (mistrust of people), are attitudes with features of personality traits. These attitudes may affect CVD risk in several ways, by influencing an individual's (1) adoption of health behaviors, (2) maladaptive stress responding resulting in direct alteration of physiology (i.e., autonomic dysfunction, thrombosis, arrhythmias), (3) development of traditional CVD risk factors, and (4) lack of adherence to therapy in both primary and secondary prevention. More adaptive attitudes may favorably influence CVD risk at each of these critical junctures. The genetic and environmental (i.e., social, economic, racial/ethnic) determinants of attitudes have not been extensively studied. In addition, it is important to understand how some of these environmental determinants may also moderate the association between attitudes and CVD. Clinical trials to modify attitudes for CVD risk reduction (either by reducing negative attitudes or by increasing positive attitudes) are difficult to conduct, but are necessary to determine whether attitudes can indeed be modified, and if, so, to quantify any CVD-related benefits. To address these questions we present a broad, multidisciplinary research agenda utilizing mixed methods and integrating principles of epidemiology, genetics, psychophysiology, and behavioral medicine over the lifecourse (first figure). This overview focuses on attitudes and CVD, but has broader implications for understanding how psychological factors relate to chronic diseases of adulthood.
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