Clinical factors influencing psychological adjustment in patients with cardiovascular pathology (on the model of pulmonary arterial hypertension and atrial fibrillation)

Results of emotional status, attitude towards disease and health-related quality of life assessment in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and atrial fibrillation are presented. Quality of life is significantly impaired, most in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. However patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, their physical limitations notwithstanding, were better adjusted to illness, than patients with atrial fibrillation. These differences may be explained by characteristics of clinical course of the diseases and their social consequences.