TY - JOUR
T1 - Combining psychosocial data to improve prediction of cardiovascular disease risk factors and events
T2 - The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-sponsored women's ischemia syndrome evaluation study
AU - Whittaker, Kerry S.
AU - Krantz, David S.
AU - Rutledge, Thomas
AU - Johnson, B. Delia
AU - Wawrzyniak, Andrew J.
AU - Bittner, Vera
AU - Eastwood, Jo Ann
AU - Eteiba, Wafia
AU - Cornell, Carol E.
AU - Pepine, Carl J.
AU - Vido, Diane A.
AU - Handberg, Eileen
AU - Merz, C. Noel Bairey
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - BACKGROUND: There is overlap among psychosocial predictors of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The usefulness of combining psychosocial variables as risk markers for CVD needs investigation. METHODS: Participants were 493 women in the NHLBI WISE study. Multivariate combination of Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Social Network Index (SNI), and Cook-Medley hostility subscales was evaluated, and principal components analysis also conducted. Relationships of composite psychosocial risk markers to CVD events and risk factors were assessed. RESULTS: The multivariate block of SNI, Cook-Medley Hostile Affect subscale, STAI, and BDI predicted CVD events (χ = 27.8, df = 6, p < .001). Scalewise factor analysis revealed 2 factors: negative affectivity (NA) and hostility (explained variance, 45.6% and 17.1%, respectively). NA was associated with BMI (β [SE] = 0.18 [0.09], p = .04), hostility with metabolic syndrome (exp(β) = 0.60 [0.28], p = .04). Both factors were associated with blood pressure (BP): NA with SBP (β = 2.53 [1.04], p = .02) and DBP (β = 1.66 [0.60], p = .02); hostility with SBP (β = 2.72 [1.13], p = .02) and DBP (β = 1.83 [0.65], p = .005). Neither factor predicted CVD events. Original scales predicted CVD events: lower SNI (HR = 0.74, CI = 0.57-0.96), lower Hostile Affect (HR = 0.80, CI = 0.56-1.03), and higher BDI (HR = 1.33, CI = 1.08-1.74). CONCLUSIONS: In women with suspected ischemia, multivariate combination of psychosocial risk markers predicts CVD events; derived psychosocial factors were associated with CVD risk factors but not events. Measuring common variance among psychosocial variables may be a useful research strategy.
AB - BACKGROUND: There is overlap among psychosocial predictors of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The usefulness of combining psychosocial variables as risk markers for CVD needs investigation. METHODS: Participants were 493 women in the NHLBI WISE study. Multivariate combination of Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Social Network Index (SNI), and Cook-Medley hostility subscales was evaluated, and principal components analysis also conducted. Relationships of composite psychosocial risk markers to CVD events and risk factors were assessed. RESULTS: The multivariate block of SNI, Cook-Medley Hostile Affect subscale, STAI, and BDI predicted CVD events (χ = 27.8, df = 6, p < .001). Scalewise factor analysis revealed 2 factors: negative affectivity (NA) and hostility (explained variance, 45.6% and 17.1%, respectively). NA was associated with BMI (β [SE] = 0.18 [0.09], p = .04), hostility with metabolic syndrome (exp(β) = 0.60 [0.28], p = .04). Both factors were associated with blood pressure (BP): NA with SBP (β = 2.53 [1.04], p = .02) and DBP (β = 1.66 [0.60], p = .02); hostility with SBP (β = 2.72 [1.13], p = .02) and DBP (β = 1.83 [0.65], p = .005). Neither factor predicted CVD events. Original scales predicted CVD events: lower SNI (HR = 0.74, CI = 0.57-0.96), lower Hostile Affect (HR = 0.80, CI = 0.56-1.03), and higher BDI (HR = 1.33, CI = 1.08-1.74). CONCLUSIONS: In women with suspected ischemia, multivariate combination of psychosocial risk markers predicts CVD events; derived psychosocial factors were associated with CVD risk factors but not events. Measuring common variance among psychosocial variables may be a useful research strategy.
KW - cardiovascular disease
KW - cardiovascular events
KW - factor analysis
KW - psychosocial variables
KW - women
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U2 - 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31824a58ff
DO - 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31824a58ff
M3 - Article
C2 - 22434916
AN - SCOPUS:84859718163
VL - 74
SP - 263
EP - 270
JO - Psychosomatic Medicine
JF - Psychosomatic Medicine
SN - 0033-3174
IS - 3
ER -