Biomedical subjects

F Berto

Publications and source records attributed to F Berto.

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PubMed1988

[Type A personality and risk of post-infarction coronary events].

The purpose of this study was to verify the prevalence of Coronary-prone Behaviour Pattern in a group of eighty-eight patients recovering from their first episode of myocardial infarction. These patients were followed for a period of 4 years to verify the eventual appearance of coronary events, after their first myocardial infarction, with high Coronary-prone Behaviour Pattern levels. The results showed that the number of subjects who died from recurrent myocardial infarction was nearly twice as high in type B, non coronary-prone subjects, as in type A subjects. The Authors hypothesize that specific ways of coping with stressful events adopted by type A subjects may constitute a protection factor as regards the risk of death from recurrent myocardial infarction.

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PubMed1986

Type A behavior pattern and mortality after recurrent myocardial infarction: preliminary results from a follow-up study of 5 years.

The purpose of the current study is to examine the association between the type A Behavior Pattern (TABP) and recurrent myocardial infarction (RMI). Rosenman's Structured Interview was administered to a consecutive series of patients admitted to the hospital for myocardial infarction (n = 88). Incidence and mortality from RMI in relation to TABP categories were evaluated after a follow-up period of 5 years. The number of new episodes of myocardial infarction observed in the extreme categories was nearly the same but the number of subjects who dies was nearly twice as large in the B as in the A1 category (10.3% vs. 5.8%, chi 2 = 9.074, p less than 0.0283). No subject was observed to survive after RMI in the B group. In agreement with other recent studies, our preliminary results failed to confirm the association between TABP and RMI, but showed a protection from death for subjects displaying high TABP levels. This finding is discussed in terms of the possibility for type A subjects to cope better with the acute illness.

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PubMed1983

Life events and myocardial infarction.

Life events reported to have occurred twelve months before the onset of the illness were compared in 55 in-patients who had a first episode of myocardial infarction and 55 control in-patients matched for age, sex, marital status and social class and afflicted with acute abdomen, trauma and multiple trauma. The Paykel interview for Recent Life Events was used. Myocardial infarction patients reported significantly more previous events than the control group (p less than 0.001) with more undesirable (p less than 0.01) and uncontrolled (p less than 0.01) events. Moreover, myocardial infarction patients had significantly more events (p less than 0.01) which had an "objective negative impact" (rated as being traumatic). These findings are consistent with the view that certain recent life events have a positive association with the onset of a first episode of myocardial infarction.

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PubMed1972