Publications by authors named "J Chapp"
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- A strong link was found between a positive family history of early coronary heart disease and early age at diagnosis, specifically in males, leading to a focus on male subjects for further analysis.
- The self-report Ketterer Stress Symptom Frequency Checklist revealed that factors like aggravation, depression, and anxiety were connected to both a positive family history and early diagnosis age.
- Further analysis using reports from spouses or friends indicated that these external perspectives explained a significant portion (68%) of the common variance between family history and early diagnosis in males.
Objectives: In this study patients with documented ischemic coronary heart disease (ICHD; prior MI or CAD per catheterization) were tested for the association of various measures of emotional distress with Age at Initial Diagnosis.
Methods: The measures were chosen because of a published track record at predicting mortality in this population. Females were oversampled to achieve equivalent numbers of each sex (n=50), and thus equivalent statistical power.
The present study uses early diagnosis of ischaemic coronary heart disease (ICHD) as a proxy for disease malignancy in testing the statistical strength of association, and uniqueness/confounding, of several psychometric scales that have previously been found to prospectively predict death in cardiac samples (Beck Depression Inventory, Crown-Crisp Phobic Anxiety Scale, Type D Scale & Ketterer Stress Symptom Frequency Checklist). Eighty-three patients (no. of females = 35) with documented ICHD were assessed for traditional and psychometric risk factors.
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