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Prince N, Stav M, Cote M, Chu SH, Vyas CM, Okereke OI, Palacios N, Litonjua AA, Vokonas P, Sparrow D, Spiro A, Lasky-Su JA, Kelly RS. Metabolomics and Self-Reported Depression, Anxiety, and Phobic Symptoms in the VA Normative Aging Study. Metabolites 2023; 13:851. [PMID: 37512558 PMCID: PMC10383599 DOI: 10.3390/metabo13070851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Revised: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Traditional approaches to understanding metabolomics in mental illness have focused on investigating a single disorder or comparisons between diagnoses, but a growing body of evidence suggests substantial mechanistic overlap in mental disorders that could be reflected by the metabolome. In this study, we investigated associations between global plasma metabolites and abnormal scores on the depression, anxiety, and phobic anxiety subscales of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) among 405 older males who participated in the Normative Aging Study (NAS). Our analysis revealed overlapping and distinct metabolites associated with each mental health dimension subscale and four metabolites belonging to xenobiotic, carbohydrate, and amino acid classes that were consistently associated across all three symptom dimension subscales. Furthermore, three of these four metabolites demonstrated a higher degree of alteration in men who reported poor scores in all three dimensions compared to men with poor scores in only one, suggesting the potential for shared underlying biology but a differing degree of perturbation when depression and anxiety symptoms co-occur. Our findings implicate pathways of interest relevant to the overlap of mental health conditions in aging veterans and could represent clinically translatable targets underlying poor mental health in this high-risk population.
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- Nicole Prince
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; (N.P.); (M.S.); (M.C.); (S.H.C.); (O.I.O.); (J.A.L.-S.)
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; (N.P.); (M.S.); (M.C.); (S.H.C.); (O.I.O.); (J.A.L.-S.)
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; (N.P.); (M.S.); (M.C.); (S.H.C.); (O.I.O.); (J.A.L.-S.)
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; (N.P.); (M.S.); (M.C.); (S.H.C.); (O.I.O.); (J.A.L.-S.)
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; (N.P.); (M.S.); (M.C.); (S.H.C.); (O.I.O.); (J.A.L.-S.)
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
- Department of Public Health, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA
- Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA;
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- Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston, MA 02114, USA; (P.V.); (D.S.)
- VA Normative Aging Study, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA;
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- Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston, MA 02114, USA; (P.V.); (D.S.)
- VA Normative Aging Study, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA;
- Department of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian and Avidisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- VA Normative Aging Study, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA;
- Department of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian and Avidisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Boston University Chobanian and Avidisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; (N.P.); (M.S.); (M.C.); (S.H.C.); (O.I.O.); (J.A.L.-S.)
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; (N.P.); (M.S.); (M.C.); (S.H.C.); (O.I.O.); (J.A.L.-S.)
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
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Calugi S, Dametti L, Dalle Grave A, Dalle Grave R. Changes in specific and nonspecific psychopathology network structure after intensive cognitive behavior therapy in patients with anorexia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord 2022; 55:1090-1099. [PMID: 35689570 DOI: 10.1002/eat.23755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2022] [Revised: 05/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to compare eating disorder-specific and nonspecific clinical features in patients with anorexia nervosa before and after intensive enhanced cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E) via network analysis. METHODS All consecutive patients admitted to intensive CBT-E were eligible, and the sample comprised patients aged ≥16 years who completed a 20-week intensive CBT-E program. Body mass index (BMI), Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire and Brief Symptoms Inventory responses were gathered at baseline and end of treatment, and used to generate statistical networks of the connections between symptoms (nodes) and the strength and centrality thereof. RESULTS A total of 214 patients were included. Most nodes had relatively similar centrality compared to other nodes in the networks. "Eating concern" and "phobic anxiety" showed the greatest bridge centrality at both time points. No differences were found between baseline and the end of treatment in either global network or individual connection strengths. CONCLUSION These findings suggest that some clinical expressions not specific to eating-disorder psychopathology remain strongly connected in the generalized network of patients with anorexia nervosa after CBT-E. Future research should examine whether additional procedures specifically designed to target these symptoms should be integrated into this and other treatments.
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- Simona Calugi
- Department of Eating and Weight Disorders, Villa Garda Hospital, Garda, Italy
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- Department of Eating and Weight Disorders, Villa Garda Hospital, Garda, Italy
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- Department of Eating and Weight Disorders, Villa Garda Hospital, Garda, Italy
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Kim YJ, Kim ES. Relationship between Phobic Anxiety in Work and Leisure Activity Situations, and Optimistic Bias Associated with COVID-19 among South Koreans. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020; 17:E8436. [PMID: 33202624 PMCID: PMC7697353 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17228436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Revised: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the public is unable to maintain a proper balance between work and leisure, and an increase in community-based infections is causing severe phobic anxiety. Therefore, the present study investigated the differences in phobic anxiety between work and leisure activities according to optimistic bias among 533 South Korean citizens. Frequency analysis, descriptive statistical analysis, t-tests, and a one-way analysis of variance were conducted to examine the data. The results showed that for leisure activities, women showed a higher perception of phobic anxiety. In addition, the group showing high optimistic bias had a higher perception of phobic anxiety in both work and leisure activity situations. Therefore, support measures to lower phobic anxiety among women are needed at the government level, while support and interest from family members are needed at home. Moreover, local governments must ensure active involvement to mitigate phobic anxiety among individuals, and measures are needed to more actively implement infectious disease prevention behaviors.
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- Department of Physical Education, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea;
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Abril-Requena A, García-Torres F, Alós FJ. Sexual dysfunction and phobic anxiety in breast cancer survivors. Psychooncology 2018; 28:195-197. [PMID: 30225895 DOI: 10.1002/pon.4894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Revised: 08/16/2018] [Accepted: 09/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.,IMIBIC Health Research Institute, Cordoba, Spain.,Reina Sofía University Hospital of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.,IMIBIC Health Research Institute, Cordoba, Spain.,Reina Sofía University Hospital of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
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Chang SC, Crous-Bou M, Prescott J, Rosner B, Simon NM, Wang W, De Vivo I, Okereke OI. Prospective association of depression and phobic anxiety with changes in telomere lengths over 11 years. Depress Anxiety 2018; 35:431-439. [PMID: 29486096 PMCID: PMC6085135 DOI: 10.1002/da.22732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2017] [Revised: 01/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Although depression and anxiety have been associated with shorter telomeres in cross-sectional studies, the data regarding the prospective relations of depression and anxiety to accelerated telomere length shortening are limited and findings are mixed. We prospectively examined relations of baseline depression and phobic anxiety to subsequent 11-year change in relative leukocyte telomere lengths (LTLs). METHODS We selected 1,250 women from a subcohort of the Nurses' Health Study who provided blood specimens at both blood collections (1989-1990 and 2000-2001). Depression was defined by self-reported regular antidepressant use or presence of severe depressive symptoms; anxiety symptoms were assessed using the Crown-Crisp Experiential Index. Using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay, LTLs were measured as the copy number ratio of telomere repeat to a single control gene. Changes in LTLs were defined in three ways: absolute change, symmetrized percent change, and decile shift. RESULTS Overall, there were no statistically significant associations of depression or phobic anxiety to subsequent 11-year LTL shortening, despite a point estimates in the direction of greater telomere shortening among participants with versus without depression, across all three metrics of telomere change. The strongest predictor of LTL change was baseline telomere length, and regression-to-the-mean was observed. CONCLUSION Baseline depression and phobic anxiety were not significantly associated with 11-year attrition in LTLs among 1,250 mid-life and older women. However, a suggestion of depression and greater subsequent LTL attrition, while not statistically significant, may warrant further inquiry, particularly in prospective studies with larger sample sizes and broader windows of the lifespan.
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- Shun-Chiao Chang
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Clinical Research Program, Barcelona Beta Brain Research Center, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Anxiety and Complicated Grief Program, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York NY 10016 USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Department of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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Ramin C, Wang W, Prescott J, Rosner B, Simon NM, De Vivo I, Okereke OI. A prospective study of leukocyte telomere length and risk of phobic anxiety among women. Psychiatry Res 2015; 230:545-52. [PMID: 26603336 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2014] [Revised: 08/14/2015] [Accepted: 10/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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We prospectively examined the relation of relative telomere lengths (RTLs), a marker of biological aging, to phobic anxiety in later-life. RTLs in peripheral blood leukocytes were measured among 3194 women in the Nurses' Health Study who provided blood samples in 1989/90. The Crown-Crisp Phobic Index (CCI, range=0–16) was assessed in 1988 and 2004. Only participants with CCI≤3 (consistent with no meaningful anxiety symptoms) in 1988 were included. We related baseline RTLs to odds ratios (ORs) of incident high phobic anxiety symptoms (CCI≥6). To enhance clinical relevance, we used finite mixture modeling (FMM) to relate baseline RTLs to latent classes of CCI in 2004. RTLs were not significantly associated with high phobic anxiety symptoms after 16 years of follow-up. However, FMM identified 3 groups of phobic symptoms in later-life: severe, minimal/intermediate, and non-anxious. The severe group had non-significantly shorter multivariable-adjusted mean RTLs than the minimal/intermediate and non-anxious groups. Women with shorter telomeres vs. longest telomeres had non-significantly higher likelihood of being in the severe vs. non-anxious group. Overall, there was no significant association between RTLs and incident phobic anxiety symptoms. Further work is required to explore potential connections of telomere length and emergence of severe phobic anxiety symptoms during later-life.
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Walter S, Glymour MM, Koenen K, Liang L, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Cornelis M, Chang SC, Rewak M, Rimm E, Kawachi I, Kubzansky LD. Do genetic risk scores for body mass index predict risk of phobic anxiety? Evidence for a shared genetic risk factor. Psychol Med 2015; 45:181-191. [PMID: 25065638 PMCID: PMC4387884 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291714001226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Obesity and anxiety are often linked but the direction of effects is not clear. METHOD Using genetic instrumental variable (IV) analyses in 5911 female participants from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS, initiated 1976) and 3697 male participants from the Health Professional Follow-up Study (HPFS, initiated 1986), we aimed to determine whether obesity increases symptoms of phobic anxiety. As instrumental variables we used the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene, the melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) gene and a genetic risk score (GRS) based on 32 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that significantly predict body mass index (BMI). 'Functional' GRSs corresponding with specific biological pathways that shape BMI (adipogenesis, appetite and cardiopulmonary) were considered. The main outcome was phobic anxiety measured by the Crown Crisp Index (CCI) in 2004 in the NHS and in 2000 in the HPFS. RESULTS In observational analysis, a 1-unit higher BMI was associated with higher phobic anxiety symptoms [women: β = 0.05, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.030-0.068; men: β = 0.04, 95% CI 0.016-0.071). IV analyses showed that BMI was associated with higher phobic anxiety symptoms in the FTO-instrumented analysis (p = 0.005) but not in the GRS-instrumented analysis (p = 0.256). Functional GRSs showed heterogeneous, non-significant effects of BMI on phobic anxiety symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Our findings do not provide conclusive evidence in favor of the hypothesis that higher BMI leads to higher levels of phobic anxiety, but rather suggest that genes that influence obesity, in particular FTO, may have direct effects on phobic anxiety, and hence that obesity and phobic anxiety may share common genetic determinants.
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- S Walter
- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,Harvard School of Public Health,Boston, MA,USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,Harvard School of Public Health,Boston, MA,USA
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- Mailman School of Public Health,Columbia University,New York, NY,USA
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- Department of Epidemiology,Harvard School of Public Health,Boston, MA,USA
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- Department of Nutrition,Harvard School of Public Health,Boston, MA,USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,Harvard School of Public Health,Boston, MA,USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,Harvard School of Public Health,Boston, MA,USA
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- Department of Epidemiology,Harvard School of Public Health,Boston, MA,USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,Harvard School of Public Health,Boston, MA,USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,Harvard School of Public Health,Boston, MA,USA
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Gall C, Mueller I, Franke GH, Sabel BA. Psychological distress is associated with vision-related but not with generic quality of life in patients with visual field defects after cerebral lesions. Ment Illn 2012; 4:e12. [PMID: 25478113 PMCID: PMC4253382 DOI: 10.4081/mi.2012.e12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2011] [Accepted: 05/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Considerably diminished quality of life (QoL) is observed in patients with visual field defects after lesions affecting the visual pathway. But little is known to what extent vision-and health-related QoL impairments are associated with psychological distress. In 24 patients with chronic visual field defects (mean age=56.17±12.36) the National Eye Institute-visual functioning questionnaire (NEI-VFQ) for vision-related QoL, the Short Form Health Survey-36 (SF-36) for generic QoL and the revised Symptom-Checklist (SCL-90-R) were administered. Cases with clinically relevant SCL-90-R symptoms were defined. Demographic, QoL and visual field parameters were correlated with SCL-90-R scales. About 40% of the investigated patients met the criteria for the definition of psychiatric caseness. 8/12 NEI-VFQ scales correlated significantly with SCL-90-R phobic anxiety (r-range -0.41 to -0.64, P<0.05), 5/12 NEI-VFQ scales correlated with SCL-90-R interpersonal sensitivity (-0.43 to -0.50), and 3/12 with SCL-90-R depression (-0.51 to -0.57) and obsessive-compulsiveness (-0.41 to -0.43). In contrast, only 1/8 SF-36 scales correlated significantly with SCL-90-R depression, phobic anxiety and interpersonal sensitivity (-0.41 to -0.54). No substantial correlations were observed between visual field parameters and SCL-90-R scales. Significant correlations of SCL-90-R with NEI-VFQ but not with SF-36 suggest that self-rated psychological distress is the result of diminished vision-related QoL as a consequence of visual field loss. The extent of visual field loss itself did not influence the rating of psychological distress directly, since SCL-90-R symptoms were only reported when diminished vision-related QoL was present. Patients with reduced vision-related QoL due to persisting visual field defects should therefore be offered additional neuropsychological rehabilitation and supportive psychotherapeutic interventions even years after the lesion.
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- Carolin Gall
- Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Medical Faculty, Institute of Medical Psychology, Magdeburg
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- Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Medical Faculty, Institute of Medical Psychology, Magdeburg
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- University of Magdeburg-Stendal, Department of Rehabilitation Psychology, Stendal, Germany
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- Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Medical Faculty, Institute of Medical Psychology, Magdeburg
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Watkins LL, Blumenthal JA, Babyak MA, Davidson JR, McCants CB Jr, O'Connor C, Sketch MH Jr. Phobic anxiety and increased risk of mortality in coronary heart disease. Psychosom Med 2010; 72:664-71. [PMID: 20639390 DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181e9f357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether phobic anxiety is associated with increased risk of cardiac mortality in individuals with established coronary heart disease (CHD) and to examine the role of reduced heart rate variability (HRV) in mediating this risk. Previous findings suggest that phobic anxiety may pose increased risk of cardiac mortality in medically healthy cohorts. METHODS We performed a prospective cohort study in 947 CHD patients recruited during hospitalization for coronary angiography. At baseline, supine recordings of heart rate for HRV were collected, and participants completed the Crown-Crisp phobic anxiety scale. Fatal cardiac events were identified over an average period of 3 years. RESULTS Female CHD patients reported significantly elevated levels of phobic anxiety when compared with male patients (p < .001), and survival analysis showed an interaction between gender and phobic anxiety in the prediction of cardiac mortality (p = .058) and sudden cardiac death (p = .03). In women, phobic anxiety was associated with a 1.6-fold increased risk of cardiac mortality (hazard ratio, 1.56; 95% confidence interval, 1.15-2.11; p = .004) and a 2.0-fold increased risk of sudden cardiac death (hazard ratio, 2.02; 95% confidence interval, 1.16-3.52; p = .01) and was unassociated with increased mortality risk in men (p = .56). Phobic anxiety was weakly associated with reduced high-frequency HRV in female patients (r = -.14, p = .02), but reduced HRV did not alter the association between phobic anxiety on mortality. CONCLUSIONS Phobic anxiety levels are high in women with CHD and may be a risk factor for cardiac-related mortality in women diagnosed with CHD. Reduced HRV measured during rest does not seem to mediate phobic anxiety-related risk.
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Martínez Santamaría E, Lameiras Fernández M, González Lorenzo M, Rodríguez Castro Y. [Emotional distress in elderly people with heart disease]. Aten Primaria 2006; 38:90-5. [PMID: 16828012 PMCID: PMC7679881 DOI: 10.1157/13090430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2005] [Accepted: 10/10/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To analyse the emotional distress associated with ageing, and its prevalence among elderly people who suffer from heart disease. DESIGN Personal interviews with elderly people with and without heart problems. SETTING Interviews were conducted in public hospitals and old people's homes in the south of Galicia, Spain. PARTICIPANTS The sample was made up of 130 elderly people (65 with heart problems and 65 without). MAIN MEASUREMENTS The Inventory of Coping Strategies, of Halroyd and Reynolk (1984); Scheir, Caver, and Bridges Test (1984); the Life Satisfaction Scale of Diener, Emmuns, Larsen, and Griffen (1985); Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale (1965); and an instrument to measure Associated Symptoms (SCL-90; Derogatis, 1975). RESULTS Elderly people with heart problems experienced greater anxiety and had lower self-esteem than those without such problems. Heart patients also tended to suffer more phobic anxiety and to retreat from social interaction more. With the passing of time, heart patients over 60 showed more anxiety, irritability and psychosomatic disorders. CONCLUSIONS This study clearly shows the existence of emotional distress in elderly heart patients. This makes it particularly important to conduct risk-prevention programmes, since a lot of heart disease is brought on by unhealthy conduct.
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