CLINICAL FEATURES OF AUTONOMIC AROUSAL SYMPTOMS IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION WITH COMORBID ANXIETY DISORDERS

Nguyễn Thị Phương Loan1, Hoàng Trường Sơn1,2,, Lê Thị Thu Hà1,2, Nguyễn Văn Tuấn1,2
1 National Mental Health Institute, Bach Mai Hospital
2 Hanoi Medical University

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Objectives: Describe clinical features of autonomic arousal symptoms in patients with atrial fibrillation with anxiety disorders. Subjects and methods: Cross-sectional description of inpatients with atrial fibrillation at National Heart Institute - Bach Mai Hospital from August 2021 to October 2022. Results: 39.6% of inpatients with atrial fibrillation suffer comorbid anxiety disorder. Autonomic arousal symptoms are the most common symptoms in this group of patients, encountered in 100% of patients. Cardiovascular system symptoms are the most common, occurring in 100% of patients. Autonomic arousal symptoms in other organ systems such as respiratory (99.5%), digestive (96.4%), urinary (74.6%), neuromuscular (91, 4%), systemic symptoms (94.9%) are also common. In the majority of patients, these symptoms present to be mild to moderate. Conclusion: Anxiety disorder is a common disease associated with atrial fibrillation, autonomic arousal symptoms are very common symptoms and noticeable in this group of patients.

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