自呈A型量表与冠心病风险的深入研究.docx

(Circulation. 1998;98:405.)? 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.Clinical Investigation and ReportsProspective Study of a Self-Report Type A Scale and Risk of Coronary Heart DiseaseAbstractBackground—Several methods exist by which to assess type A behavior (TAB).Although the videotaped clinical interview is regarded as the gold standard, self-report measures have also proved useful in assessing TAB in large population studies. The purpose of this study was to examine prospectively the relationship of TAB to risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence with the use of the revised Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) Type A Scale. To the best of our knowledge,this is the first test of this scale in the context of predicting CHD incidence. Methods and Results—The study was performed in the VA Normative Aging Study, an ongoing cohort of older (mean age, 61 years) community-dwelling men. A total of 1305 men who were free of diagnosed CHD in 1986 completed the MMPI-2 Type A Scale. During an average 7.0 years of follow-up, 110cases of incident CHD occurred. Compared with men in the lowest quartile of type A scores, men in the highest quartile had multivariate adjusted relative risks of 2.86 (95% CI, 1.19 to 6.89; P for trend=0.016) for combined CHD death and nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI) and 2.30 (95% CI, 1.32 to 4.01; P for trend=0.001) for combined CHD death/nonfatal MI plus angina pectoris. The relationship of TAB to CHD was independent of measures of anger and cynicism. Conclusions—The MMPI-2 Type A Scale predicts CHD incidence. Further research is warranted to examine the correlation, if any, between this scale and the videotaped clinical interview.Key Words: coronary disease ? type A personality ? hostility ? angerIntroductionResearch on TAB peaked during the 1980s, accompanied by high levels of enthusiasm for the screening and diagnosis of this behavior pattern and psychosocial interventions aimed at modifying the risk of CHD.1 However,confl