Table 1: Demographic, medical, and psychological characteristics of patients with versus without a recent (past three months) history of anginal symptoms.

Recent anginal symptoms Variable Present Absent () () % % Male 80% 90.5% .04 Caucasian 82.9% 89.7% .17 History of Diabetes 15.7% 14.3% .79 History of Myocardial Infarction 41.4% 42.9% .85 History of Hypertension 54.3% 43.7% .15 History of PTCA 35.7% 34.9% .91 Variable M (SD) M (SD) Age 61.4 (8.7) 63.1 (8.2) .17 Beck Depression Inventory 7.3 (5.7) 5.2 (5.7) .002 State Anxiety 34.5 (9.8) 29.8 (9.5) .001 Trait Anxiety 34.3 (8.7) 31.6 (8.7) .03 Novelty Seeking 16.5 (6.2) 16.5 (5.6) .97 Harm Avoidance: 13.0 (6.2) 11.1 (7.3) .04 Reward Dependence: 15.8 (4.4) 15.8 (3.7) .98 Cook-Medley Hostility Scale 19.9 (8.0) 20.1 (8.7) .97 Anger Out 13.9 (3.4) 13.8 (3.8) .69 Anger In 15.0 (3.3) 15.4 (4.1) .69 Anger Control 25.5 (5.3) 26.0 (4.8) .71 Anger Expression 19.5 (9.4) 19.3 (9.4) .93 Autonomic Perception 71.9 (32.3) 64.2 (31.7) .09 Muscle Tension 32.1 (17.3) 25.2 (18.4) .004 Toronto Alexithymia Scale 64.7 (12.0) 63.2 (12.4) .47