Smoking-associated factors in myocardial infarction and unstable angina: Do gender differences exist?

Are poor health behaviours in anxious and depressed cardiac patients explained by sociodemographic factors?

“…6,7 High alcohol intake is associated with other risk behaviours, particularly smoking. 8 Nonetheless, the prevalence of unhealthy lifestyles and modifiable risk factors remains high in cardiac populations. 2,9 For patients who are depressed, risk behaviours are even more common.…”

Características de usuários com diagnóstico de Transtorno Depressivo atendidos em um Centro de Atenção Psicossocial

“…Mas é preciso reforçar que, diante do quadro epidemiológico de várias pesquisas, foi constatada uma forte associação entre o transtorno depressivo e as doenças crônicas e que pessoas com depressão apresentam piores desfechos no quadro clínico. É essencial que os profissionais e os serviços de saúde estruturem políticas e ações específicas para esse contingente populacional (21)(22) .…”

A Literature Review of Depression, Anxiety, and Cardiovascular Disease in Women

“…Løvlien et al (2008) reported greater sleep disturbance and family stress in women compared to men with CHD. Interestingly, in the single study that included evaluation of smoking, Perez et al (2007) found that smoking was not independently associated with either depression or anxiety, regardless of gender. Similarly, Hunt‐Shanks et al (2009) reported that exercise neither mediated nor moderated relationships between gender and depression and gender and anxiety.…”

“…Although many studies have examined depression, anxiety, and their symptoms in patients with CVD, relatively few studies have focused on gender di¡erences in patients with CVD (Table 1). Researchers have examined gender di¡erences in depression and anxiety symptoms in individuals with known CVD have focused on those with coronary heart disease (CHD), either in stable conditions, after acute coronary syndrome or myo-cardial infarction, or in cardiac rehabilitation (Table 1; Izawa et al, 2008;Kazemi-Saleh, Pishgoo, Farrokhi, Fotros, & Assari, 2008;Lindquist et al, 2003;Lvlien, Schei, & Hole, 2008;Mortensen et al, 2007;Parashar et al, 2009;Perez, Nicolau, Romano, & Laranjeira, 2007). Heart failure patients have been the subject of three papers (Faller et al, 2007;Heo, Moser, & Widener, 2007;Macabasco-O'Connell, Crawford, Stotts, Stewart, & Froelicher, 2010).…”