Yield of elective coronary angiography; gender differences, patient history, risk factors and angiographic findings in a primary care population.

Objective: To assess yield of elective coronary angiography and gender differences in primary care patients suspected to have stable coronary artery disease (SCAD).

Design: Information was gathered from an angiography registry, referral texts of the general practitioners and medical records made by the cardiologists in secondary care.

Setting: Angiography registry data analyses of the Turku University Hospital, Finland, in the year 2011.

Type D personality and metabolic syndrome among Finnish female municipal workers.

Background: Type D personality is a combination of high negative affectivity (NA) and high social inhibition (SI). This personality trait is suspected to impair cardiovascular patients' recovery. The 2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice recommend screening of psychosocial risk factors as Type D personality.