Anxiety and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: a Review

Title
Anxiety and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: a Review
Publication Date
2016-12
Author(s)
Tully, Phillip J
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2807-1313
Email: ptully2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ptully2
Harrison, Nathan J
Cheung, Peter
Cosh, Suzanne
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8003-3704
Email: scosh@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:scosh
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Springer Healthcare
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1007/s11886-016-0800-3
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/26770
Abstract
Unrecognized anxiety is a difficult clinical presentation in cardiology. Anxiety leads to recurring emergency department visits and the need for numerous diagnostic evaluations to rule out cardiovascular disease (CVD). This review focuses broadly on anxiety and its sub-types in relation to the onset and progression of CVD while describing helpful guidelines to better identify and treat anxiety. Potential mechanisms of cardiopathogenesis are also described. An emerging literature demonstrates that anxiety disorders increase the risk for incident CVD but a causal relationship has not been demonstrated. Anxiety portends adverse prognosis in persons with established CVD that is independent from depression. The level of clinical priority received by depression should be extended to research and clinical intervention efforts in anxiety. Anxiety holds direct relevance for uncovering mechanisms of cardiopathogenesis, developing novel therapeutic strategies, and initiating clinical interventions in the population at risk of developing heart disease, or those already diagnosed with CVD.
Link
Citation
Current Cardiology Reports, 18(120), p. 1-8
ISSN
1534-3170
Start page
1
End page
8

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