Cortisol awakening response is elevated in acute coronary syndrome patients with type-D personality

Type D personality in Poland: Validity and application of the Polish DS14

“…The prevalence of Type D in Polish healthy subjects was comparable to that found in Danish, German, UK/Irish, and Ukrainian healthy samples, although a lower prevalence (i.e., 13.3%) was found in one study of Dutch healthy controls (Aquarius, Denollet, Hamming, Breek & De Vries, 2005). By contrast, the prevalence of Type D of 72.1% in CVD patients found in the current study was considerably higher than in previous CVD studies conducted in Western Europe (Pedersen, Van Domburg, Theuns, Jordaens & Erdman, 2004;Schiffer, Pedersen, Broers, Widdershoven & Denollet, 2004;Pedersen & Denollet, 2004;Al-Ruzzeh, Athanasiou, Mangoush, Wray, Modine, George, et al, 2005;Denollet, Vaes & Brutsaert, 2000;Grande, Jordan, Kummel, Struwe, Schubmann, Schulze et al, 2004;Whitehead, Perkins-Porras, Strike, Magid & Steptoe, 2007), although a previous study of hypertensives also found an unusually high prevalence, with 53% (Denollet, 2005).…”

Morning and afternoon serum cortisol level in patients with post-myocardial infarction depression

“…Morning as well as afternoon concentrations did not exceed physiological values. The depressed and nondepressed groups did not differ from each other in either morning or afternoon cortisol concentration, which is in line with the results published by Whitehead et al [17]. However, a significant difference was found in the diurnal profile (morning -afternoon) of the cortisol level between these two groups.…”

Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Patients With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd): A Narrative Review

“…Type-D personality has been shown to predict adverse clinical outcomes in patients after acute coronary syndrome and revascularisation, and in patients with chronic heart failure (Denollet et al 2006, Pedersen & Denollet 2003. It is also associated with heightened proinflammatory cytokine activation in patients with heart failure , and with disturbances in cortisol secretion after acute coronary syndrome (Whitehead et al 2007). More recently, type-D personality was associated with coronary artery plaque presence and severity in people with no history of cardiovascular disease, even after adjustment for typical cardiac risk factors (Compare et al 2014).…”