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ReviewCirculation2025

Post-Myocardial Infarction Psychological Distress: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

Glenn N Levine, Robert M Carney, Beth E Cohen, Susan L Dunn, Allison E Gaffey, Ian M Kronish, Erik M G Olsson, Jeff C Huffman, American Heart Association Stroke Council; Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing; Council on Clinical Cardiology; Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research; and Council on Lifelong Congenital Heart Disease and Heart Health in the Young

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Review in Circulation, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Depression, health anxiety, and five-year mortality after ST-elevation myocardial infarction: the SEMI-CI cohort.International journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Glenn N Levine
Robert M Carney
Beth E Cohen
Susan L Dunn
Allison E Gaffey
Ian M Kronish
Erik M G Olsson
Jeff C Huffman
American Heart Association Stroke Council; Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing; Council on Clinical Cardiology; Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research; and Council on Lifelong Congenital Heart Disease and Heart Health in the Young

Funding

Social Vulnerability, Sleep, and Early Hypertension Risk in Younger AdultsK23HL168233 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Allison Gaffey · 2023 to 2026
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NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL168233
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The importance of psychological distress in patients with cardiovascular disease is increasingly recognized as both a contributing factor to the development and progression of cardiovascular disease and a consequence of the development of cardiovascular disease. Patients with acute myocardial infarction have increased risks for depression, anxiety, psychosocial stress, or posttraumatic stress disorder. Together, these negative psychological factors when occurring after myocardial infarction have been referred to as postmyocardial psychological distress. Up to half of patients after myocardial infarction may experience some form of psychological distress, and this postmyocardial psychological distress has been associated with an increased risk of future cardiac events. Biologically plausible mechanisms by which postmyocardial psychological distress may lead to increased future cardiac risk include lesser physical activity, smoking (and failure to stop smoking), excess alcohol consumption, poor diet, obesity, inadequate sleep, inadequate social support, decreased medication adherence, and poor attendance at cardiac rehabilitation. The data on whether treatment of postmyocardial psychological distress improves cardiac prognosis are mixed and of variable quality, and further studies, particularly in patients with anxiety, stress, and posttraumatic stress disorder, would be helpful. Regardless, multiple interventions can reduce psychological distress and thus lead to improved psychological health, a greater sense of emotional well-being, and a better quality of life. A goal of health care professionals should be to treat not only the disease but also the person as a whole in front of us.

Indexed as

Myocardial InfarctionPsychological DistressStress, PsychologicalAmerican Heart AssociationHumansQuality of LifeRisk FactorsUnited StatesAHA Scientific Statementscardiovascular diseasesdepressionmyocardial infarctionpsychological distressstress disorders, post-traumatic

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PMID40977387
PMCPMC12919889

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