ArticleInternational journal of behavioral medicine2021
Facial Expressions of Emotions During Pharmacological and Exercise Stress Testing: the Role of Myocardial Ischemia and Cardiac Symptoms.
Article in International journal of behavioral medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05896982 (Optimizing Patient Experience During Myocardial Perfusion Imaging), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Optimizing Patient Experience During Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
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- Sex Differences in Psychosocial Factors and Angina in Patients With Chronic Coronary Disease.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Trial
- Observational
- Facial Emotion Analysis During Rehabilitation Treatment of a Patient With Acute Generalized Peritonitis and Delirium.Cureus · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundNegative emotions have been linked to ischemic heart disease, but existing research typically involves self-report methods and little is known about non-verbal facial emotion expression. The role of ischemia and anginal symptoms in emotion expression was examined.
methodsPatients undergoing cardiac stress testing (CST) using bicycle exercise or adenosine with myocardial perfusion imaging were included (N = 256, mean age 66.8 ± 8.7 year., 43% women). Video images and emotion expression (sadness, anxiety, anger, and happiness) were analyzed at baseline, initial CST , maximal CST, recovery. Nuclear images were evaluated using SPECT.
resultsIschemia (N = 89; 35%) was associated with higher levels of sadness (p = .017, d = 0.34) and lower happiness (p = .015, d = 0.30). During recovery, patients with both ischemia and anginal symptoms had the highest sadness expression (F (3,254) = 3.67, p = .013, eta
conclusionSadness and reduced happiness were more common in patients with ischemia. Also, anginal symptoms were associated with more negative emotions.
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