You'll have to ask your doctor, hospital and stroke association what the correlation is between personality and stroke. It would seem to be an obvious line of study but our stroke associations will do nothing about this.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=143440&CultureCode=en
A new study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and
Psychosomatics has addressed the relationship between personality and
heart attacks. Distressed (type D) personality (TDP), characterized by
high negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI), along with
depression, anxiety and other negative affects (such as demoralization,
hopelessness, pessimism and rumination) have been implicated as
potential risk factors for coronary artery disease. While some evidence
suggests that the NA dimension of TDP overlaps at least partially with
depression, other studies underline how ‘TDP refers to a chronic, more
covert form of distress that is distinct from depression'.
In this study, Authors aimed to clarify whether, among never
depressed patients at their first acute coronary syndrome (ACS), there
is an overlap between the constructs of TDP and depression, evaluating
the stability of NA and SI 6 months after the ACS, and their
relationship with depressive symptoms. Patients consecutively admitted
to the Coronary Intensive Care Unit of the University Hospital of Parma
between January 2009 and March 2012 who had their first ACS and no
history of major depression (MD) or other psychiatric disorders, were
included.
During the follow-up period 30 patients developed depressive symptoms
(MD: n = 12; minor depression (md): n = 18), whereas 220 subjects
maintained a nondepressive condition throughout the study period. At
baseline the NA and SI levels were higher in subjects who developed
depression than in patients who did not. However, at the baseline
evaluation 19 patients without previous depressive episodes already
satisfied the criteria for md. Interestingly, at baseline these subjects
showed higher levels of NA and SI than subjects without md. Among
patients who developed depression (n = 30) HADS scores significantly
changed during the 6-month follow-up: both anxiety and depression scores
increased from baseline to the second month of follow-up and then
decreased. The same pattern of change was observed for the NA score,
whereas the SI score did not vary during follow-up. In nondepressed
patients, both HADS depression and anxiety scores and NA score
significantly decreased throughout the follow-period, whereas the SI did
not change.
In this study, the overlap between depressive psychopathology and NA
features is suggested by the course of these two dimensions over time.
Indeed, in both depressed and nondepressed patients, NA levels were not
stable during the 6-month follow-up, but they changed along with the
variation of HADS scores. This finding suggests that the NA dimension is
sensitive to mood-state, because its levels increase and decrease
according to the fluctuation of severity of depressive and anxious
symptoms. This result supports the view that the disposition to
experience and report negative emotions (NA) can be sensitive to
mood-state. Therefore, the presence of depressive state is crucial when
assessing TDP, since NA and anhedonic depression are partially
overlapping and co-varying constructs.
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