Are You a Type-D Personality?

摘要

If an anxious, type-a personality can raisernthe risk of heart disease, can a depressive one do the same? According to researchers in the Netherlands, the answer is yes.rnPeople with type-D personality tend to have a negative outlook on life and suppress their feelings. They're also likely to be reserved and socially inhibited. All of these factors can lead to heart-damaging stress. So when researchers pooled studies of heart patients with type-D profiles but without clinical depression, they found them to be three times as likely to have a heart attack or stroke than those without that personality profile. The effect remained strong even after the scientists adjusted for any negative feelings patients may have developed as a result of being diagnosed with heart disease.