Psychocardiology in the Treatment of Coronary Patients

	Mirta A. Laham *
Instituto de Psicocardiología, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Abstract

There exists much evidence that coronary disease presents a combination of different psychosocial risk factors for the health of patients. However, in the last years, it also began to be considered as a lifestyle disease.
During the last decades, the importance of the psychological and social factors in the development of coronary artery disease and life prevalence of the coronary patient has been gaining ground, not only from some theoretical perspectives of the disease, but also in the clinical practice, prevention and rehabilitation.
Psychocardiology originated as a special area of Health Psychology. Today, it constitutes an interdisciplinary approach to cardiac diseases such as coronary artery disease and heart failure. The scarcity of information coronary patients have about their disease, its causes, prevention methods and ways to face its treatment and rehabilitation may be confirmed through the daily contact with them. Psychocardiology has both a clinical aspect of prime importance and a theoretical one, which is enriched and fueled by the research work carried out on coronary patients as regards their medical, psychological and social aspects.

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CV of Author
- Dra. en Psicología Clínica
-  Directora del Instituto de Psicocardiología
- Jefa de consultorio externo del Servicio de Salud Mental
- Jefa del la unidad de Salud Metal en el Servicio de Cardiología del Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas "Dr. Alfredo Lanari", UBA
- Docente de la Facultad de Medicina UBA
- Docente de la Universidad de Belgrano
 Evaluadora Experta del Posgrado de la Facultad de Psicología, UBA

Publication: September 2007

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