Abstract:Goal: assessment of depressive symptomatology and personality traits in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Patients: forty-two males consecutively admitted to a cardiology unit due to an ICD-10 diagnosis of Acute Cardiac Syndrome (ACS). Twenty-two of them had unstable angina (UA) without myocardial infarction and 20 of them had confirmed myocardial infarction (MI). Methods: short questionnaire assessing the clinical course of heart disease, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Cloninger Temper… Show more
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