Abstract

The author conducted a literature review to better characterize the current concept of psychosomatics regardeding the relationship between psychological and behavioral factors and cardiovascular disease. This review focus on several problems : hypertension, coronary artery disease such as myocardial infarction and angima pectoris. We describe model for understanding the relationship of psychological factors to the disease, review the results fo relevant research studies and provide recommendation for further research.

• Keywords: Psychosomatics concept. Coronary artery disease. Hypertension. Stress. heart rate variability. Type A behavior pattern.;