Nozogenies and the attitude to disease in patients with acute coronary syndrome

The emotional (anxiodepressive) disorders ADD are a type of nozogenies, or psychogenic disfunctions concerned with a somatic disease. Any disease has a subjective reflection in the patient’s psychee in the form of the internal image of the disease. It is expressed in the definite type of the attitude to disease and its treatment that either contributes to or hinders the optimal rehabilitation of patient. Anxiodepressive disorders influence on the formation of the type of attitude to disease. This article discusses the analysis of these disorders and types of attitude to the disease in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). It has been found out that more than one third of them have anxiodepressive disorders, and the most frequent types of attitude to the disease are erghopatic and anosognosic ones. While the ADD development the nonadaptive type of attitude to the disease and treatment is significantly often formed that leads to social alienation.