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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am Heart J. 2014 Sep 16;169(1):115–121.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2014.07.031

Table 3.

Association between anger subscale scores and myocardial ischemia severity, as quantified by the SDS, during mental stress.

Anger subscales Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
Δ (95% CI) P Δ (95% CI) P Δ (95% CI) P
Anger-state 0.40 (0.20-0.60) <.001 0.41 (0.20-0.62) <.001 0.36 (0.14-0.59) 0.002
Anger-trait 1.02 (0.39-1.65) 0.002 1.12 (0.46-1.78) 0.001 0.95 (0.21-1.69) 0.01
Anger Expression
Anger-out 0.68 (0.08-1.29) 0.03 0.68 (0.06-1.31) 0.03 0.52 (-0.15-1.18) 0.13
Anger-in 0.67 (-0.09-1.42) 0.08 0.68 (-0.10-1.46) 0.09 0.31 (-0.62-1.23) 0.52
Anger-control (out) -0.69 (-1.51-0.13) 0.10 -0.72 (-1.54-0.10) 0.08 -0.52 (-1.39-0.35) 0.24
Anger-control (in) -0.27 (-1.22-0.67) 0.57 -0.33 (-1.27-0.61) 0.49 0.01 (-0.99-1.02) 0.98

Δ: Unit change in SDS per increase in IQR of corresponding anger subscale

Model 1: Unadjusted model

Model 2: Adjusted for age, gender, race, smoking status, and Gensini score.

Model 3: Adjusted for all the covariates in model 2 + BDI-II score and trait-anxiety.