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Positive and negative affect is related to experiencing chest pain during exercise-induced myocardial ischemia

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posted on 2018-08-10, 09:01 authored by Philippe Stebenne, Simon L. Bacon, Anthony Austin, Nicola PaineNicola Paine, Andre Arsenault, Catherine Laurin, Bernard Meloche, Jennifer Gordon, Jocelyn Dupuis, Kim L. Lavoie
© 2017 by the American Psychosomatic Society. Objective: Silent myocardial ischemia is thought to be associated with worse cardiovascular outcomes due to a lack of perception of pain cues that initiate treatment seeking. Negative affect (NA) has been associated with increased pain reporting and positive affect (PA) with decreased pain reporting, but these psychological factors have not been examined within the context of myocardial ischemia. This study evaluated the associations between PA, NA, and chest pain reporting in patients with and without ischemia during exercise testing. Methods: A total of 246 patients referred for myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography exercise stress testing completed the positive and negative affect schedule-expanded version, a measure of PA and NA. Presence of chest pain and myocardial ischemia were evaluated using standardized protocols. Results: Logistic regression analyses revealed that for every 1-point increase in NA, there was a 13% higher chance for ischemic patients (odds ratio [OR] = 1.13; 95 % confidence interval [CI] = 1.02 to 1.26) and an 11% higher chance in nonischemic patients (OR = 1.11; 95% CI = 1.03 to 1.19) to report chest pain. A significant interaction of PA and NA on chest pain reporting (ß = 0.02; 95% CI = 0.002 to 0.031) was also observed; nonischemic patients with high NA and PA reported more chest pain (57%) versus patients with low NA and low PA (13%), with high NA and low PA (17%), and with high PA and low NA (7%). Conclusions: Patients who experience higher NA are more likely to report experiencing chest pain. In patients without ischemia, high NA and PA was also associated with a higher likelihood of reporting chest pain. Results suggest that high levels of PA as well as NA may increase the experience and/or reporting of chest pain.

Funding

Funding for data collection was provided by an operating grant from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Quebec (HSFQ), and investigator awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Fonds de recherche du Quebec: Sante (FRQS) (KLL & SLB).

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School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volume

79

Issue

4

Pages

395 - 403

Citation

STEBENNE, P. ... et al., 2017. Positive and negative affect is related to experiencing chest pain during exercise-induced myocardial ischemia. Psychosomatic Medicine, 79(4), pp. 395-403.

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© American Psychosomatic Society. Published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-11-08

Publication date

2017-05-31

Copyright date

2017

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000427

ISSN

0033-3174

eISSN

1534-7796

Language

  • en

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