Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Are Correlates of Angina Pectoris by Recent History and an Ischemia-Positive Treadmill Test in Patients with Documented Coronary Artery Disease in the Pimi Study

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	𝑃
	(𝑁=70)	(𝑁=126)
	%	%
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)	𝑃
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