Cardiovascular Psychiatry and Neurology

Research Article

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 2

Demographic and medical characteristics, ETT parameters and psychological test scores by presence or absence of anginal symptoms during the positive exercise treadmill test.


	Type of ischemia during ETT
Variable	Symptomatic	Silent
	()	()
	%	%

Male	87	87	.98
Caucasian	88	87	.84
History of Diabetes	13	16	.60
History of Myocardial Infarction	44	41	.58
History of Hypertension	53	42	.13
History of PTCA	31	39	.27

	M	M
	(SD)	(SD)

Age	62.5 (8.7)	62.5 (8.2)	.91
Total ETT Duration (mins)	6.9 (2.7)	8.4 (3.0)	<.001
Time to 1 mm ST Depression	4.8 (2.3)	5.9 (3.4)	.008
Time to End of Test from ST Onset	2.0 (1.5)	2.5 (2.6)	.03
Maximum St Depression (mm)	1.9 (0.6)	2.1 (0.6)	.04
Rate-Pressure Product at Onset of ST Depression (/1000)	21.8 (4.7)	23.7 (5.6)	.02
Rate-Pressure Product at Peak Exercise (/1000)	23.6 (4.5)	26.4 (5.7)	<.001
Peak Borg Exertion Score	16.1	16.2	.72
Peak SBP	177.8 (21.3)	184.6 (27.7)	.07
Peak-Resting SBP	36.6 (19.0)	42.2 (27.2)	.07
Beck Depression Inventory	7.3 (6.9)	4.7 (4.4)	.003
State Anxiety	33.9 (10.2)	29.5 (9.0)	.004
Trait Anxiety	34.0 (9.4)	31.3 (8.1)	.07
Modified Autonomic Perception	68.6 (32.6)	65.5 (31.8)	.49
Muscle Tension Perception	30.0 (18.9)	25.8 (17.6)	.09
Toronto Alexithymia Scale	64.7 (13.3)	63.0 (11.3)	.27
Anger Out	13.9 (3.4)	13.8 (3.7)	.79
Anger In	15.4 (3.8)	15.1 (3.9)	.56
Anger Control	25.5 (5.3)	26.1 (4.7)	.64
Anger Expression	19.9 (9.4)	18.9 (9.4)	.53
Cook-Medley Hostility Scale	21.0 (8.2)	19.2 (8.5)	.09
Harm Avoidance	12.8 (7.4)	11.0 (6.6)	.11
Novelty Seeking	16.1 (5.7)	16.9 (5.9)	.40
Reward Dependence	15.4 (4.1)	16.1 (3.8)	.18