Cortisol awakening response is elevated in acute coronary syndrome patients with type-D personality.

J Psychosom Res

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Psychobiology Group, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

Published: April 2007

Objective: Type-D or "distressed" personality and depression following admission for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) have been associated with poor clinical outcome. The biological pathways underpinning this relationship may include disruption of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. We therefore assessed cortisol output in patients who had recently suffered from ACS.

Method: Salivary cortisol was assessed eight times over a 24-h period in 72 patients within 5 days of admission for ACS. Depressive symptoms were measured with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and type-D personality was measured with the Type-D Scale-16. Particular attention was given to cortisol awakening response (CAR), which was measured as the difference in cortisol between waking and peak responses 15-30 min later.

Results: Cortisol showed a typical diurnal pattern, with low levels in the evening, high levels early in the day, and CAR averaging 7.58+/-10.0 nmol/l. Cortisol was not related to the severity of ACS or underlying coronary artery disease or to BDI scores. The CAR was positively associated with type-D personality independently of age, gender, and body mass (P=.007). Linear regression showed that type-D personality accounted for 7.9% of the variance in CAR after age, sex, body mass, BDI, cortisol level on waking, and fatigue had been taken into account (P=.008).

Conclusions: Type-D personality may be associated with disruption of HPA axis function in survivors of acute cardiac events and may contribute to heightened inflammatory responses influencing future cardiac morbidity.

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