Psychosomatic medicine
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Psychosomatic medicine · Sep 2007
Anxiety predicts mortality and morbidity after coronary artery and valve surgery--a 4-year follow-up study.
To explore the long-term effect of anxiety and depression on outcome after cardiac surgery. To date, the relationship between psychosocial factors and future cardiac events has been investigated mainly in population-based studies, in patients after cardiac catheterization or myocardial infarction. ⋯ The results of the present study suggest that the assessment of psychosocial factors, particularly the ongoing assessment of anxiety, could help in risk stratification and identification of patients at risk of mortality and cardiovascular morbidity after cardiac surgery.