The association between anxiety and cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been long recognized.3 One meta-analysis of mitral valve prolapse and anxiety disorders, including 14 studies (1,146 people), found the prevalence of prolapse in people with panic disorder was 27.2%, compared with 9.2% in the general population.2 This translated to a relative risk of 2.469.2
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1.Shruthi DR, Kumar SS, Desai N, et al. Psychiatric comorbidities in acute coronary syndromes: six-month follow-up study. Indian J Psychiatry 2018; 60 (1): 60–64.
2.Tural U, Iosifescu DV. The prevalence of mitral valve prolapse in panic disorder: a meta-analysis. Psychosomatics 2019; 60 (4): 393–401.
3.Long V, Guertin MC, Dyrda K, et al. Descriptive study of anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorders in cardiovascular disease patients: from referral to cardiopsychiatric diagnoses. Psychother Psychosom 2018; 87 (6): 370–371.
