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Title: Follow-up status of patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries and panic disorder

Abstract

Cardiology patients with normal coronary angiography demonstrate continuing and substantial social, health, and work disability. The authors hypothesized that the diagnosis of panic disorder would mark those for whom continuing disability is most likely. They interviewed 72 such patients at the time of their normal angiogram, and then again an average of 38 months later. Those with panic disorder (n=36) demonstrated significantly more disability at follow-up than did the other study patients. They conclude that those patients with normal angiograms who have panic disorder are more disabled than those who do not have panic disorder. Panic disorder in psychiatric samples has been shown to be highly treatable. Therefore, early identification and treatment of panic disorder in this group is likely to minimize the suffering associated with this condition.

Authors:
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  1. Univ. of Missouri, Columbia (United States)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
5555204
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 265:12; Journal ID: ISSN 0098-7484
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; BIOLOGICAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGY; BLOOD VESSELS; BIOMEDICAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTERIES; CORONARIES; PATIENTS; SIDE EFFECTS; THERAPY; BODY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MEDICINE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; ORGANS; RADIOLOGY; 550602* - Medicine- External Radiation in Diagnostics- (1980-)

Citation Formats

Beitman, B D, Kushner, M G, Basha, I, Lamberti, J, Mukerji, V, and Bartels, K. Follow-up status of patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries and panic disorder. United States: N. p., 1991. Web. doi:10.1001/jama.1991.03460120059036.
Beitman, B D, Kushner, M G, Basha, I, Lamberti, J, Mukerji, V, & Bartels, K. Follow-up status of patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries and panic disorder. United States. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1991.03460120059036
Beitman, B D, Kushner, M G, Basha, I, Lamberti, J, Mukerji, V, and Bartels, K. 1991. "Follow-up status of patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries and panic disorder". United States. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1991.03460120059036.
@article{osti_5555204,
title = {Follow-up status of patients with angiographically normal coronary arteries and panic disorder},
author = {Beitman, B D and Kushner, M G and Basha, I and Lamberti, J and Mukerji, V and Bartels, K},
abstractNote = {Cardiology patients with normal coronary angiography demonstrate continuing and substantial social, health, and work disability. The authors hypothesized that the diagnosis of panic disorder would mark those for whom continuing disability is most likely. They interviewed 72 such patients at the time of their normal angiogram, and then again an average of 38 months later. Those with panic disorder (n=36) demonstrated significantly more disability at follow-up than did the other study patients. They conclude that those patients with normal angiograms who have panic disorder are more disabled than those who do not have panic disorder. Panic disorder in psychiatric samples has been shown to be highly treatable. Therefore, early identification and treatment of panic disorder in this group is likely to minimize the suffering associated with this condition.},
doi = {10.1001/jama.1991.03460120059036},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5555204}, journal = {JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association; (United States)},
issn = {0098-7484},
number = ,
volume = 265:12,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 27 00:00:00 EST 1991},
month = {Wed Mar 27 00:00:00 EST 1991}
}