| Title: |
Anxiety disorders and stressful events in Takotsubo syndrome |
| Authors: |
Davide Lazzeroni; Matteo Bini; Castiglioni P; Luca Moderato; Chiara Ciracì; Umberto Camaiora; Pietro Tito Ugolotti; Lorenzo Brambilla; Valerio Brambilla; Silvia Garibaldi; Letizia Paglialonga; Valentina Ziveri; Fabrizio Ugo; Nicola Gaibazzi; Paolo Coruzzi |
| Contributors: |
Davide, Lazzeroni; Matteo, Bini; Castiglioni, P; Luca, Moderato; Chiara, Ciracì; Umberto, Camaiora; Pietro Tito, Ugolotti; Lorenzo, Brambilla; Valerio, Brambilla; Silvia, Garibaldi; Letizia, Paglialonga; Valentina, Ziveri; Fabrizio, Ugo; Nicola, Gaibazzi; Paolo, Coruzzi |
| Publication Year: |
2017 |
| Collection: |
IRInSubria - Institutional Repository Insubria (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria) |
| Description: |
Background: Anxiety disorders are more common in Takotsubo syndrome (TS) than in acute coronary syndrome patients. Theaim of this study was to investigate whether pre-existing anxiety disorders predispose to TS triggered by exclusively emotional stressful events. Methods: Triggering events were compared in 58 TS patients with and without pre-existing anxiety disorders; clinical, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic data were also collected. Results: Thirty-one (53%) patients had a previous history of anxiety disorders. The exclusively emotional stressful event-rate was higher in TS patients with pre-existing anxiety disorder (74% vs. 30%, p = 0.001), while TS caused by an undetermined trigger were significantly higher in patients without anxiety disorders (33% vs. 10%, p = 0.027). Moreover, in TS patients without a previous history of anxiety disorders, a trend of higher prevalence of physical events was found (16% vs. 37%, p = 0.07). Conclusions: In patients with pre-existing anxiety disorders, TS was predominantly triggered by exclusively emotional stressful events, thereby suggesting a possible relationship between anxiety and emotional cardiac frailty in TS patients. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
ELETTRONICO |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000444545500008; journal:CARDIOLOGY JOURNAL; https://hdl.handle.net/11383/2145164; https://journals.viamedica.pl/cardiology_journal/article/view/54206 |
| DOI: |
10.5603/CJ.a2017.0136 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/11383/2145164; https://doi.org/10.5603/CJ.a2017.0136; https://journals.viamedica.pl/cardiology_journal/article/view/54206 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.545C0A37 |
| Database: |
BASE |