Death anxiety in patients with myocardial infarction or cancer

ConclusionIn this study patients with AMI had higher death anxiety than patients with cancer or healthy individuals. Generally death anxiety was related with education, employment and socioeconomic status. Prospective studies carefully searching for different variables in different medical groups would reveal and help us to understand the importance of death anxiety and its impact on courses of physical and mental disorders.
Source: The Egyptian Heart Journal - Category: Cardiology Source Type: research