ArticleJournal of psychosomatic research2017
Fear and distress disorders as predictors of heart disease: A temporal perspective.
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- Genome-wide genetic overlap between fear-based disorders and generalised anxiety disorder.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Comorbidity and temporal associations between mental disorders among college students in the world mental health international college student initiative.Psychiatry research · 2025Article
- Unraveling the heart-brain axis: shared genetic mechanisms in cardiovascular diseases and Schizophrenia.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Neutrophilic granulocyte percentage is associated with anxiety in Chinese hospitalized heart failure patients.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2022Article
- Transdiagnostic Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Cardiovascular Disease Patients: Results From the CHAMPS Pilot-Feasibility Trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Identifying the Internalizing Disorder Clusters Among Recently Hospitalized Cardiovascular Disease Patients: A Receiver Operating Characteristics Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Depression, Anxiety, and Cognitive Impairment : Comorbid Mental Health Disorders in Heart Failure.Current heart failure reports · 2018Review
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Abstract
objectiveFew studies have been able to contrast associations of anxiety and depression with heart disease. These disorders can be grouped in fear and distress disorders. Aim of this study was to study the association between fear and distress disorders with subsequent heart disease, taking into account the temporal order of disorders.
methodsTwenty household surveys were conducted in 18 countries (n=53791; person years=2,212,430). The Composite International Diagnostic Interview assessed lifetime prevalence and age at onset of disorders, and respondents were categorized into categories based on the presence and timing of fear and distress disorders. Heart disease was indicated by self-report of physician-diagnosed heart disease or self-report of heart attack, together with year of onset. Survival analyses estimated associations between disorder categories and heart disease.
resultsMost respondents with fear or distress disorders had either pure distress or pure fear (8.5% and 7.7% of total sample), while fear preceded distress in the large majority of respondents with comorbid fear and distress (3.8% of total sample). Compared to the "no fear or distress disorder" category, respondents with pure fear disorder had the highest odds of subsequent heart disease (OR:1.8; 95%CI:1.5-2.2; p<0.001) and compared to respondents with pure distress disorder, these respondents were at a significantly increased risk of heart disease (OR:1.3; 95%CI:1.0-1.6; p=0.020).
conclusionThis novel analytic approach indicates that the risk of subsequent self-reported heart disease associated with pure fear disorder is significantly larger than the risk associated with distress disorder. These results should be confirmed in prospective studies using objective measures of heart disease.
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