Prognostic value of type D personality for 10-year mortality and subjective health status in XXXX treated with percutaneous coronary intervention.

@entity1 @entity308 @entity148 @entity19392
OBJECTIVE: Given the debate around limitations and controversies in type D personality studies, we aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of 'synergistically' analyzed type D personality (interaction z-scores negative affectivity NA, and social inhibition SI) on 10-year mortality and on 10-year subjective health status in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) @entity1 . METHODS: This prospective study comprised a cohort of 1190 consecutive @entity1 who underwent PCI between October 2001 and September 2002 (73% male, mean age: 62years, range [27-90]years). At baseline, type D personality (DS14), and @entity308 / @entity148 (HADS) were assessed. Primary endpoint was 10year all-cause mortality; secondary endpoint was 10-year subjective health status (SF-36). RESULTS: After a median follow-up of 10.3years (IQR 9.8-10.8), 293 deaths of any cause (24.6%) were recorded. After adjustment for significant baseline characteristics, personality categories approached and dichotomously approached type D personality were associated with 10-year mortality, p<.05. Synergistically approached type D personality was not associated with all-cause mortality or subjective health status at 10years. In survivors, higher NA was associated with lower subjective health status. Type D was not associated with mortality after adjusting for continuous @entity308 and @entity148 in all approaches. CONCLUSIONS: Synergistically analyzed type D was not associated with 10-year all-cause mortality in PCI @entity1 whereas @entity19392 was. However, after adjustment for @entity308 most of the findings had disappeared. @entity308 played an important role in this. Type D was not associated with 10-year subjective health status.
