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Longitudinal relationship between B-type natriuretic peptide and anxiety in coronary heart disease patients with depression.
J. Psychosomat. Res. 123:109728 (2019)
Objective: Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) suffer from physical limitations, but also from psychological distress. Natriuretic peptides may be involved in the neurobiological processes that modulate psychological adaptation, as they are increased in heart disease and seem to have an anxiolytic-like function. Longitudinal data on this association are scarce.Methods: To assess the relationship between NT-proBNP and anxiety (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)), we used secondary data from a multicenter trial from baseline to 24 months. Patients (N = 308, 80.8% male, mean age 60.1 years) had stable CHD and moderate levels of depression (HADS >= 8).Results: Multiple linear regression adjusted for age, sex, BMI, and physical functioning revealed NT-proBNP as a significant predictor for anxiety at baseline, 1, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months (all p < .05). Linear mixed model analysis with the six anxiety measures as level-1 variable and NT-proBNP as fixed factor revealed a significant time*NT-proBNP interaction (t(1535.99) = -2.669, p = .01) as well as a significant time*NT-proBNP*sex-interaction (1(1535.99) = 3.277, p = .001), when NT-proBNP was dichotomized into lowest vs. the three highest quartiles.Conclusion: Our results indicate a stable negative association of baseline NT-proBNP with anxiety over two years. In men and women, different pathways modulating this relationship appear to be in effect. Female patients with very low NT-proBNP levels, despite their cardiac disease, show persistently higher levels of anxiety compared to women with higher levels of NT-proBNP and compared to men.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Anxiety ; Coronary Heart Disease ; Depression ; Natriuretic Peptide; Stepwise Psychotherapy Intervention; Artery-disease; Randomized-trial; Reducing Risk; Spirr-cad; Associations; Multicenter; Severity; Failure; System
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0022-3999
e-ISSN
1879-1360
Quellenangaben
Volume: 123,
Article Number: 109728
Publisher
Elsevier
Publishing Place
The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford Ox5 1gb, England
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Peer reviewed
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Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI2)