Do type D personality and diabetes predict the onset of depressive symptoms in patients after percutaneous coronary intervention?
Type D personality and diabetes comprise risk factors for the onset of depressive symptoms post-PCI. In clinical practice, patients with these risk factors should be identified and considered for psychosocial intervention targeting depression to enhance secondary prevention.
These results identify impaired hand-eye coordination as a new clinical feature of iDEND. The aetiology of this feature is likely to involve cerebellar dysfunction. The data further suggest that sulphonylurea doses that control the diabetes of these patients may be insufficient to fully correct their neurological symptoms.