Paul Lodder, Jelte M Wicherts, Marijn Antens, Christian Albus, Ivan S Bessonov, Emelie Condén, Karolijn Dulfer, Sara Gostoli, Gesine Grande, Pär Hedberg, Christoph Herrmann-Lingen, Tiny Jaarsma, Malcolm Koo, Ping Lin, Tin-Kwang Lin, Thomas Meyer, Georgiy Pushkarev, Chiara Rafanelli, Olga I Raykh, Alexandre Schaan de Quadros, Marcia Schmidt, Alexei N Sumin, Elisabeth M W J Utens, Dirk J van Veldhuisen, Yini Wang, Nina Kupper
OBJECTIVE: Type D personality, a joint tendency toward negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI), has been linked to adverse events in patients with heart disease, though with inconsistent findings. Here, we apply an individual patient-data meta-analysis to data from 19 prospective cohort studies (N = 11151), to investigate the prediction of adverse outcomes by Type D personality in acquired cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients. METHOD: For each outcome (all-cause mortality, cardiac mortality, myocardial infarction (MI), coronary artery bypass grafting, percutaneous coronary intervention, major adverse cardiac event (MACE), any adverse event), we estimated Type D's prognostic influence and the moderation by age, sex, and disease type...
January 16, 2023: Psychosomatic Medicine