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Anxiety as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease independent of depression: A narrative review of current status and conflicting findings.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
- Anxiety, depression and acromegaly: a systematic review.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2025Pooled it
- Patient-centered care in Coronary Heart Disease: what do you want to measure? A systematic review of reviews on patient-reported outcome measures.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023Pooled it
- Correlates of disability among primary care patients with common mental disorders and chronic medical conditions- a cross-sectional study from rural South India.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Trial
- Modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in people with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS): Findings from the endocrine and mental health study.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2026Article
- Long COVID and risk of incident cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study using the Multimorbidity Integrated Registry Across Care Levels in Stockholm (MIRACLE-S) cohort.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Article
- Machine learning-based prediction of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk in adults with diabetes or prediabetes.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
- Brain activation and heart rate variability as markers of autonomic function under stress.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Anxiety, depression, working from home and health-related behaviours during COVID-19: Structural equation modelling and serial mediation of associations with angina, heart attacks and stroke.Journal of health psychology · 2024Article
- Exploring the Relationship of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms and Impulsiveness with the Quality of Life of Older Patients with Cardiovascular Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- "Close your eyes and relax": the role of hypnosis in reducing anxiety, and its implications for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Posttraumatic stress disorder, depressive and cardiovascular disease symptoms among young patients receiving medical treatment in a heart centre: A cross-sectional study.Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia · 2024Article
- Psychological risk factors and cardiovascular disease.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Psychological barriers to adherence to pharmacological treatment of cardiovascular risk conditions in healthcare workers.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Physiological reactions to and recovery from acute stressors: the roles of chronic anxiety and stable resources.Health psychology report · 2023Article
- Hypertension, Anxiety and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Cardiovascular Disease and COVID-19: Mediation by Dietary Salt.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Perceived Anxiety, Coping, and Autonomic Function in Takotsubo Syndrome Long after the Acute Event.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Analysis of perioperative negative emotion risk factors in patients with pituitary adenoma and its impact on prognosis: a retrospective study.Gland surgery · 2022Article
- Management of Psychiatric Disorders in Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2022Article
- Editorial: Psychocardiology then and now - the genesis of a discipline.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to summarise and evaluate the empirical support for the association between anxiety and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and to address challenges related to method and study design. We review results from meta-analyses and more recent findings on the association of anxiety and the risk of CVD. Depression and anxiety are often listed as psychosocial risk markers of CVD, but the role of anxiety as a risk factor for CVD has not received the same evidential support as the effects of depression. Through a narrative review we identified six meta-analyses as well as 15 recent large studies of anxiety and CVD that we summarise. Some of the conflicting findings may be artefacts of study design or population the sample is drawn from. Researchers should take care to be population specific, measurement specific and outcome specific, and to control for comorbid depression.
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