Biomedical subjects

N Mujić

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PubMed1995

Type A/B behavior and eight basic emotions in 1084 employees.

We examined the prevalence of Type A/B behavior and Emotion Profiles in 1084 employees. This report focused on the relationship between Type A behavior and eight basic emotion dimensions. Of the 1084 subjects 710 (65%) scored as Type A and 374 (34.5%) as Type B. The mean Bortner scores for all subjects were 182.8 (SD = 33.7), scores on emotional dimensions for Incorporation and Reproduction were high, and intensities for Ejection and Destruction were low; mean scores on other emotions were normal. Significant differences between Type A and Type B scores were found on six emotional dimensions. Subjects classified as Type A had ratings lower on trustful, controlled, and timid and higher on aggressive, distrustful, and uncontrolled than did persons classified as Type B. There were no differences between Type A and Type B scores on the emotion dimensions of Reproduction and Deprivation. Our data suggest multiple emotional components may comprise the Type A behavior pattern. This is important for behavioral counseling programs and early preventive efforts which could be aimed at reducing the intensity of Type A behaviors.

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PubMed1993

Emotion profile and behaviour pattern of patients with active duodenal ulcer compared with acute coronary patients.

The authors examined personality profiles and type A/B behaviour in 100 patients with active duodenal ulcer, and a mean age of 39 years, using the Bortner scale and the Plutchnik Emotional Profile Index (EPI). The authors compared them with acute coronary patients and healthy controls. The mean EPI percentages for the duodenal ulcer patients, compared with acute coronary patients and healthy controls, display the trustful dimension (84.1 +/- 27.4--69.1 +/- 20.4--69.3 +/- 20.0), the aggressive dimension (56.7 +/- 9.3--41.3 +/- 19.2--37.6 +/- 17.3), the depressed dimension (84.5 +/- 12.3--52.8 +/- 19.1--51.4 +/- 23.1) and the dyscontrol dimension (73.5 +/- 32.2--48.4 +/- 27.7--50.2 +/- 17.5) to be significantly higher (P < 0.005). The mean percent scores of the gregarious dimension (44.2 +/- 13.2--72.7 +/- 22.7--68.0 +/- 22.0), control dimension (25.2 +/- 91.--39.1 +/- 31.9--44.3 +/- 15.5) and timid dimension (26.2 23.3--56.0 +/- 19.9--59.8 +/- 29.5), are significantly lower in duodenal ulcer patients than in acute coronary patients and controls (P < 0.005). Behaviour type A was found in 95 (95%) duodenal ulcer patients, in 76 (73.7%) acute coronary patients and in 58 (68%) healthy controls (P < 0.001). The Bortner scale was significantly higher in duodenal ulcer patients than in coronary and control subjects (P < 0.005). The EPI of duodenal ulcer patients in comparison to acute coronary patients and healthy controls, are sadder, more impulsive, do more risky things and are more disorganized and dependent. Type A behaviour was more often in duodenal ulcer patients than in the coronary and control groups.

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PubMed1990

Emotion profiles and quality-of-life of paced patients.

More than any other organ of human anatomy, the heart is symbolically charged with emotions. Introducing a foreign body into the heart, even a pacemaker, would be expected to alter, if not damage the most intimate of personal attributes, an individual's personality. Nevertheless, standard measures of emotions, administered before and after pacemaker implantation, revealed an improvement in psychological well-being in an unselected sample of 80 patients, aged 36 to 80 years. Furthermore, these results occurred whether or not patients returned to work.

Activities of Daily Living↗

PubMed1989

[The mean values and correlation between blood pressure, body weight, height, heart rate, the PQ, QT and QTc intervals, the QRS-complex and the echocardiographic dimensions of the left atrium and ventricle in 515 14-year-old students].

In five hundred and fifteen schoolchildren, the mean values of blood pressure, body weight, height, heart rate, PQ, QT, QTc-interval, QRS-duration and echocardiographic left ventricular (LV) and left atrial (LA) diastolic internal dimension as well as their correlations were measured. There were 224 girls and 291 boys of 14 years of age. Mean systolic blood pressure was 118 +/- 15 mmHg in boys, 115 +/- 10 mmHg in girls. Mean diastolic blood pressure was 74 +/- 9 mmHg in boys, 74 +/- 7 mmHg in girls. The prevalence of systolic hypertension was 3.4% in boys, 3.1% in girls. The prevalence of diastolic hypertension was 2% in boys and 4% in girls. No significant difference was observed between body weight, height, PQ, QT, QTc-interval, QRS-duration and echocardiographic LA and LV measurement in boys and girls. Mean heart rate in girls was 98 +/- 19.7 and 88 +/- 17 in boys. The difference was statistically significant (t = 6.06; P less than 0.01). A significant positive correlation was found between body weight and height and diastolic and systolic blood pressure. The body weight and height revealed a significant positive correlation to echocardiographic left ventricular and left atrial dimension. No correlation of body weight to heart rate was observed in neither boys nor girls. A significant negative correlation was found between height and heart rate (P less than 0.05) in boys, whereas no correlation between these two variables was noticed in girls.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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