The Current Information of Personality Type D with

Cardiovascular Disease: Systematic Review

G V Fernandez1, R Fitriyah1, W S Samudera1, H Arifin1, S Maulina1

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Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia

Email: hidayat.arifin-2018@fkp.unair.ac.id

Abstract. Type of personality’s patients as psychosocial factors have been associated with
incidence and progression of cardiovascular disease. The study was to review the evidence and
the correlation between type of personality on the development of cardiovascular disease.
Articles search using PRISMA approach from; Cinahl, Science Direct, Scopus, limited to the
last 5 years; from 2013 to 2018 and obtained 15 articles. The findings of most of the studies
show that individuals with type D personality have a relationship with worse heart disease
which relate to several factors, namely physiological factors, emotional increase, anxiety,
stress, biological factors, cognitive decline and the decrease in quality of life. Individuals with
type D personality has a higher level of stress, significant blood pressure, pulse and increase in
cortisol compared to non type D personalities. Individuals who suffer cardiovascular disease
with personality type D tend to have worse development of conditions for cardiovascular
disease.

Keywords: personality; type D; cardiovascular disease; physiological