http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. People with a distressed (Type D) personality reported worse health than other patients after having devices implanted to ensure proper heart rhythm, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-heart-patients-distressed-personality-worse.html Cardiology Tue, 08 May 2012 16:00:11 EST news255696433 Copenhagen, 16 March 2012: Depression increases the risk of death in patients who have a coronary stent implanted. After seven years of follow up, depressed patients were 1.5 times more likely to have died than non-depressed patients. The findings were independent of age, gender, clinical characteristics, anxiety and the distressed (Type D) personality. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-depression-death-coronary-stent-patients.html Cardiology Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:02:27 EST news251092933