Psychosocial factors associated with conflicts among health professionals in the operating room in a Greek sample.

Aim: The purpose of this study is to investigate conflicts and identify the factors that cause the creation of conflicts in the operating room as well as coping strategies for conflict resolution.

Background: The operating room is a special and changeable working environment, which is constantly evolving, and requires interdisciplinary team collaboration. Therefore, it is an environment that may cause conflict among employees.

Lipid target achievement among patients with very high and high cardiovascular risk in a lipid clinic.

This was a retrospective study that assessed achievement of lipid-lowering treatment targets in the setting of a University Hospital Lipid Clinic. Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) goal attainment according to National Cholesterol Education Program-Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP ATP III) and European Society of Cardiology/European Atherosclerosis Society (ESC/EAS) guidelines was recorded in 1000 consecutive adult patients followed for ≥3 years (mean 8 years). The LDL-C targets according to the NCEP ATP III were attained by 66% and 86% of patients with "very high" (n = 477) and "high" (n = 408) cardiovascular risk, respectively.

The association between Type D personality and the metabolic syndrome: a cross-sectional study in a University-based outpatient lipid clinic.

Background: Type D personality has been associated in the past with increased cardiovascular mortality among patients with established coronary heart disease. Very few studies have investigated the association of type D personality with traditional cardiovascular risk factors. In this study, we assessed the association between type D personality and the metabolic syndrome.

The impact of the metabolic syndrome on health-related quality of life: a cross-sectional study in Greece.

Background: Metabolic syndrome [MetS] is a chronic, progressive and multi-complex health problem that can trigger physical, emotional and psychosocial problems. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between MetS and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as well as depressive and anxiety disorders.

Methods: New consecutive patients who attended an outpatient lipid clinic for evaluation for MetS were eligible for inclusion in the study.

Association between subjective descriptors of coronary pain and disease characteristics: a pilot study in a Hellenic rural population.

Purpose: We explored whether the way Hellenic patients describe their cardiac chest pain (verbal descriptions of the nature, intensity, temporal quality, location and radiation) associates with the diagnosis [acute myocardial infarction (AMI) versus unstable angina (UA)] as well as with the location of the coronary lesions.

Methods: A cross-sectional correlational design was employed to study 80 consecutive coronary care patients (44 with AMI, 36 with UA) from northwestern Hellas.

Results: Pain intensity did not differ significantly between AMI and UA, in contrast to treatment-seeking behaviour and accompanying symptoms (p< or =0.

Afternoon nap, meal ingestion and circadian variation of acute myocardial infarction.

A two-peaked circadian variation in acute myocardial infarction has been demonstrated, with a morning peak attributed to physiological changes produced by nocturnal sleep. To investigate the causes of the secondary peak, we compared meal habits and circadian variation in patients with acute myocardial infarction who were accustomed to afternoon naps (group A) to those who were not (group B). One hundred and fifty two patients formed group A and 65 group B.