| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 行為科學研究所 === 82 === The main purpose of the present study was to establish the relationship among coronary heart disease (CHD), the behavioral and personality risk factors, and the traditional risk factors.
A hospital-based case-control study of the relationship between CHD and behavioral and personality risk factors using traditional biological risk factors as competing variables was conducted at Kaohsiung Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital. 134 CHD patients and 134 healthy adults were collected between May. 1991-Jan. 1994 by one to one pair matching. Each case-control pair was matched by age, sex and admission date.
The behavioral and personality risk factors including: Type A behavior pattern, hostility, anger expression anxiety, and depression. The traditional risk factors including serum chole-sterol, hypertention, body mass index, diabetes, family history of heart disease, smoking and drinking habits. The data of these two aspects of CHD risk factors were collected from each subject as well as the demographic data.
The results using conditional logistic regression analysis showed that hostility, anger expression, hypertension, and serum cholesterol level had significiant relationship with CHD. No significant difference in demographic characterics between case and control groups was found.
The result of this study revealed that hostility and anger expression were the independent behavioral and personality risk factors of CHD. We suggest that a comprehensive CHD intervention biological risk factors should be included, but also the beha vioral and personality risk factors should be emphasized by modifing these four significant risk factors.
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