| AHA | American Heart Association |
| AMR | Acute mitral regurgitation |
| CDI-PTSD | Cardiac-disease-induced post-traumatic stress disorder |
| CMR | Chronic mitral regurgitation |
| CT | Chordae tendineae |
| CTR | Chordae tendineae rupture |
| CVD | Cardiovascular disease |
| DEP | Depression |
| DSM-5 | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition |
| GAD | General anxiety disorder |
| HF | Heart failure |
| LVEDD | Left ventricular end-diastolic diameter |
| LVEF | Left ventricular ejection fraction |
| M | Mean |
| MI | Myocardial infraction |
| MR | Mitral regurgitation |
| NSTEMI | non-ST-segment elevation Myocardial Infarction |
| NYHA | New York Heart Association Classifications |
| PD | Panic disorder |
| PDS | Post-traumatic Diagnostic Scale |
| PHQ | Patient Health Questionnaire |
| PTSD | Post-traumatic stress disorder |
| PTSS | Post-traumatic stress symptoms |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| VIF | Variance inflation factor |