Anxiety and health-related quality of life after cardiac surgery.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of elective cardiac surgery on health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

Material And Methods: One hundred and eight (35 women and 73 men, mean age 62.3 ±12.

Assessment of anxiety and health-related quality of life in patients with lower extremity peripheral arterial occlusive disease.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of chronic occlusive vascular disease on anxiety with adverse outcome with health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

Material And Methods: Three hundred and thirty-five patients who were treated for peripheral arterial occlusive disease were enrolled in this study. 187 patients who had undergone percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and 148 patients who had one or more surgical revascularizations enrolled in the study.

Gender Differences in Patients with Anxiety after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery.

The present study was designed to evaluate the relationship between gender and coexisting anxiety in patients undergoing coronary artery surgery. Materials and Methods: A total of 137 patients (41 women and 96 men with a mean age 66.1 ± 6.

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene polymorphisms in patients with schizophrenia.

To investigate the role of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene polymorphisms in schizophrenia, we analyzed the genotypes of MTHFR677 and MTHFR1298 of 130 schizophrenic patients and 226 controls, using a polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism method. The MTHFR T677 allele was significantly distributed (chi(2)=7.900; P=0.