Structure of life frustrations in subjects prone to ischemic heart disease.

Men, exhibiting risk factors of ischaemic heart disease (hypertension, family history, smoking, diabetes, retinal angiopathy, hypercholesterolaemia) reported to be less frustrated practically in all spheres of life than non-risk men. In women the overall difference was less conspicuous but the structure of frustrations somewhat differed. The IHD-prone women were more frustrated in the sphere of material needs and of assessment of their own health, which suggests that in them a certain feeling of illness is yet developing. On the other hand in the sphere of work and in their interpersonal relations they were less frustrated.