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May 31, 2023
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January 1, 2022
Mental stress produces myocardial ischemia in a significant subgroup of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), with prevalence estimates ranging from 20% to 70% in patients with CHD. Several biobehavioral factors are involved in mental stress-induced ...
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January 1, 2016
This chapter will provide a definition of anxiety and describe methods for assessing it within cardiac practice. Next the epidemiology of anxiety disorders and prevalence of anxiety disorders in cardiovascular disease will be reviewed followed by literatur ...
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January 1, 2014
Heart failure (HF) is a medical condition in which the heart loses its ability to pump blood efficiently. This chapter focuses on HF caused due to systolic dysfunction of the left ventricle, which is the most common and widely studied type of HF. It begins ...
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January 1, 2013
Depression is a term that refers both to a transient mood state and a clinical syndrome or disorder. As a mood state, depression is characterized by feeling despondent or unhappy, while depression as a mood disorder is a persistent set of symptoms as descr ...
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January 1, 2013
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January 1, 2006
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in the USA and Europe [1, 2]. In roughly half the cases, the first clinical manifestations of CHD – myocardial infarction (MI) or sudden death – are catastrophic. These events are sudden, unexpecte ...
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