EDITORIAL: Anger, Hostility and Quality of Life in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

The area of Coronary Heart Disease has been extensively studied but the relationship of the disease to psychosomatic aspects has not been regularly studied. The area is perhaps better looked at when the psychosomatic component is broken up into specific emotions and behaviour rather than personality types. There have been some recent works in this area that seem to provide better understanding of the relationship. Similarly the area of Quality of Life of Heart disease patients have been looked with varying results but the question of Quality of life related to the most common procedure in heart disease which is angiography has not been adequately addressed. A study that delves into this issue is presented here. Current understanding based on recent research indicate that specific emotions and behaviour are important relationship in heart disease and the aspect of Quality of Life in patients undergoing angioplasty are important predictors.