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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2024

Alexithymia and estimated 10-year cardiovascular disease risk in healthy adults: a community-based cross-sectional study.

Francesco Vadini, Roberta Lanzara, Ornella Iuliani, Gianna Pia Affaitati, Piero Porcelli

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. How alexithymia shapes functional networks: Insights from a general population study.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026
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Francesco VadiniDepartment of Psychology, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.
Roberta LanzaraDepartment of Psychology, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.
Ornella IulianiDepartment of Oncology and Hematology, Pescara General Hospital "Santo Spirito", Pescara, Italy.
Gianna Pia AffaitatiDepartment of Innovative Technologies in Medicine and Dentistry, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.
Piero PorcelliDepartment of Psychology, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.

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Abstract

Background: This cohort study aimed to explore whether and to what extent alexithymia would be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk over an estimated 10-year period, over and above established clinical cofactors (i.e., depressive symptoms, quality of life, sociodemographic, anthropometric, lifestyle, and biological data), in a low-risk population of blood donors. Methods: A sample of 1,021 adult Italian blood donors (age 46.9 ± 8.39; 61.2% men) was consecutively recruited. The 10-year-CVD risk score was estimated using the CUORE risk score (CRS). Sociodemographic, lifestyle, anthropometric, biological, and psychological (i.e., quality of life, depressive symptoms, and alexithymia) CVD risk data were assessed using validated self-report measures or clinical records. Results: As expected, most participants (78.5%) had a low CVD risk (CRS < 3%) and an overall low-risk profile for all the parameters. Compared with subjects at low risk of CVD ( Conclusion: Although limited by the cross-sectional design, this study is the first to show that alexithymia leads to a higher risk for 10-year CVD estimate in healthy subjects with low-risk profile, regardless of known biomarkers and traditional CVD risk factors.

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