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Abstract
The distressed (Type D) personality is an emerging risk marker for poor health outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease. Patients with this personality disposition are typified by a general propensity to experience psychological distress. The contribution focuses on the impact of Type D personality on psychological distress, quality of life, ventricular tachyarrhythmias, and mortality in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) patients and examines the relative influence of this vulnerability factor compared to ICD shocks and markers of disease severity in relation to these outcomes.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21710200 DOI: 10.1007/s00399-011-0139-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Herzschrittmacherther Elektrophysiol ISSN: 0938-7412