The correlation study about type A and type D personality with coronary heart disease / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objectives To explore the effect of type A personality and type D personality on coronary heart disease (CHD) ,and the influence of the two kinds of personality factors with the risk factors of CHD. Methods 123 CHD patients and 116 healthy subjects were randomly chosen to answer the questionnaire of general situation and type A behavior questionnaire(TABQ) and type D personality scale(DS14) and assay the fasting glucose ( GLU ), total cholesterol ( TC ) and triglycerides ( TG), high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) ,very low density lipoprotein (VLDL). Results ( 1 )The detection rate of type A personality were respectively 66.7% in CHD group and 40.5% in control group,while type D personality were respectively 39.8% in CHD group and 22.4% in control group (P ＜ 0. 05 ). ( 2 ) There were significant differences in total TABPQ,TH, CH , SI, NA scores between the two groups(P＜ 0.05 ). (3)Coronary heart disease had correlated with gender,history of hypertension, HDL, LDL, GLU and negative affectivity. Conclusion Negative affectivity plays an important role in CHD.