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Johan Denollet, PhD; Susanne S. Pedersen, PhD

Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(4):431-432.

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The association between depression and coronary artery disease (CAD) is complex, and a more detailed subtyping of high-risk patients is needed.^1-3 Type D personality (the tendency to experience negative emotions and to be socially inhibited) is also related to poor prognosis.⁴ There has been vigorous debate about whether Type D personality adds to the evidence concerning depression.³ It is important to show that the predictive validity of Type D personality extends beyond that which can be predicted by depression, but to our knowledge, no study to date has compared the cognitive-affective symptoms of depression, as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), with the Type D personality construct.

We therefore examined the relative effect of Type D personality and depressive symptoms on 5-year cardiac prognosis in 337 Belgian patients with CAD (297 men; mean age, 57.0 years).⁴ Covariates included exercise tolerance, index myocardial . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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