The relationship between personality, socio-economic factors, acute life stress and the development, spontaneous conversion and recurrences of acute lone atrial fibrillation

Abstract

Type A behaviour pattern and acute life stress affect the development and spontaneous conversion of atrial fibrillation. Patients with acute stress showed the highest probability of spontaneous conversion followed by patients with Type A behaviour. Other socio-economic factors affect spontaneous conversion and recurrences of lone atrial fibrillation to a lesser extent.

Does Caffeine Consumption Increase the Risk of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation?

“…The incidence of AF was considered significant compared with control if the CI did not contain 1 and the p value was less than 0.05. One study had a case-control design [14], and 7 were prospective cohort studies.…”

“…The method of caffeine exposure ascertainment was unclear in the study performed by Wilhelmsen et al [15]. Two studies were conducted in the USA [16,17] and 6 in Europe (4 in Sweden [10,13,15], 1 in Denmark [18], and 1 in Italy [14]). The lengths of the 7 cohort studies were considered to be reasonable, with a mean follow-up ranging from 4 to 25 years.…”

“…The lengths of the 7 cohort studies were considered to be reasonable, with a mean follow-up ranging from 4 to 25 years. Two included studies did not adjust for several potential confounders before reporting their estimates [14,15], while 5 studies reported the data incorporating confounding risk factors that might contribute to the development of AF, such as age, gender, and history of cardiovascular disease. The list of confounding variables for which adjustment was made are reported for individual studies in Table 1.…”

Psychosomatic correlations in atrial fibrillations

“…В то же время к настоящему времени имеются лишь единичные работы, посвященные комплексному исследова-нию этих психопатологических проявлений [3,[9][10][11].…”

“…В других работах [10,16,25] Психосоматические корреляции при фибрилляции предсердий мии, сопровождающейся депрессией, сводится к фиксации длительности и частоты пароксизмов ФП [3,6,[26][27][28]. В то же время вне поля зрения исследователей остают-ся такие психосоматические аспекты ФП, как связь психо-патологических расстройств с патохарактерологическими особенностями пациентов, психогенными факторами, про-воцирующими пароксизмы, а также со стереотипами тече-ния соматической патологии (форма, длительность, тя-жесть, наличие осложнений ФП).…”