Karl H Ladwig

..9% and -5.5%, respectively). Conclusions Job strain increased CHD risk in healthy workers; the associated inflammatory burden may contribute to stress-related coronary pathogenesis...

..Phobic anxiety predicts ventricular arrhythmia in coronary heart disease patients, but little is known about phobic anxiety in ICD patients. This study aimed to identify determinants and the course of phobic anxiety in ICD patients...

..To assess associations of obesity with health-related quality of life (HRQL) in postmenopausal women, and whether depressed mood and diabetes moderate these associations...

..The main question of the present study was whether pre-crash railway suicide behaviour can be identified, using German Federal Police officers experience with suicidal events in railway related environments...

..To bridge this gap, we conducted an analysis in a large prospective study from Southern Germany investigating associations of daily tar and nicotine intake with an incident MI event...

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..Specifically, we aim to identify predictors of successful aging and to elucidate bio-psychosocial mechanisms that maintain mental health and successful adaptation despite adverse experiences of life and aging...

..Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is generally overlooked in cardiac patients, and no study to date (to our knowledge) has evaluated the effect of PTSD symptoms on the prognosis in patients with ICDs...

..We aimed to explore whether ESR captures the concept of somatic symptom disorders regardless of the patient's disease status or the degree of symptom burden...

..The population-based approach demonstrates a substantial proportion of subjects suffering from SID, particularly in older age groups...

..We examined time patterns and long term time trends of pre-hospital delay time (PHDT) of STEMI patients...

..Nonadherence and adverse side effects of medications also contribute to the lethal properties of depression in CVD...

..However, the ethical dilemma of harming a dying patient has received little attention. We studied the current state of knowledge and behavior of physicians and the subjective needs of ICD patients with respect to end-of-life issues...

..Negative outcome expectancies and an impaired perceived self-efficacy, predominately in subjects with co-morbid negative affectivity are likely to contribute to delay...

..The railway suicide of Robert Enke, an internationally respected German football goal keeper, sent shockwaves throughout the world of football. We analyzed its impact on the frequency of subsequent railway suicide acts (RS)...

..Our findings provide new insight into the pathophysiology of smoking addiction. Activation of the enzyme alkyl-DHAP by small molecules may provide novel routes for therapy...

..To identify factors which determine high life satisfaction (LS) and to analyse the prognostic influence of LS on mortality...

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..The goal of the present study was to assess possible combined effects of these factors on the prediction of a future fatal and non-fatal coronary event...

..Smokers actively considering to quit smoking were compared with hard-core smokers completely unwilling to change smoking habits with respect to psychosocial variables...

..We examined whether widespread media coverage of a railway accident, in which several people were killed while investigating a presumed railway suicide, subsequently increased the number of railway suicides...

..These findings suggest a possible synergistic effect of obesity and depressive mood on chronic low level inflammation which may play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis...

..DISS patients without PTSD exhibited balanced autonomic responses to the startle trials. DISS may, therefore, unfold malignant properties only in combination with persistent physiological hyperarousability...

..To date, it is not established whether those favourable time trends developed homogeneously for sex and age groups and how they were affected by the number of undetermined deaths...

..Depressed and exhausted mood warrants epidemiological scrutiny as a cardiovascular risk factor. We evaluated the reliability and validity of a symptom-driven diagnostic scale...

..We conclude that high psychiatric comorbidity in ST is unlikely to be a mere consequence of chronic disease and disfigurement...

..We studied whether repetitive intracardiac shock discharges of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) provoke an enduring enhancement of startle responses...

..As a basis for preventive strategies to reduce subway suicides, an investigation was undertaken to determine if there was a distinct pattern of subway suicidal behaviour...

..Moreover, the criterion validity of the hyperarousal subscale regarding psychophysiological measurements is arguable and indicates further investigations in this area...

..001). Thus, LTS serves as surrogate measure for deteriorated psychic health. Clinicians should be advised to identify LTS patients and to consider psychotherapeutic counseling for them...

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