Amongpatientswithheartdisease,anxietydisorders2（焦虑症）appeartobeassociatedwithahigherriskofstroke,heartattack,heartfailureanddeath,accordingtoareportintheJulyissueofArchivesofGeneralPsychiatry3,oneoftheJAMA/Archivesjournals.Asmanyas24percentto31percentofpatientswithheartdiseasealsohavesymptomsofanxiety,accordingtobackgroundinformationinthearticle."Comparedwiththeextensiveliteratureondepressioninpatientswithcoronaryheartdisease（冠心病）,relatively4fewstudieshaveexaminedtheroleofanxiety,"theauthorswrite."Severalstudieshavefoundthatanxietysymptomsarepredictiveofdisability,increasedphysicalsymptomsandworsefunctional5statusandqualityoflifeinpatientswithcoronaryheartdisease.However,studiesexamininganxietyasariskfactorforfuturecoronaryheartdiseasehaveyielded（屈服，生产）conflictingresults."
ElisabethJ.Martens,Ph.D.,ofTilburgUniversity,Tilburg,theNetherlands,andcolleaguesassessed1,outpatients（门诊病人）withstablecoronaryheartdisease.Thebaselineexaminationconsistedofinterviews,bloodandurinesampletesting,exercisetestingandelectrocardiography（心电描记法）.Thepresenceofgeneralizedanxietydisorder1andofdepressivedisorderwasdetermined6usingthe
