BACKGROUND Understanding representations of disease in various art genres provides insights into how patients and health care providers view the diseases. It can also be used to enhance patient care and stimulate patient self-management. METHODS This paper reviews how cardiovascular diseases are represented in novels, films, and paintings: myocardial infarction, aneurysm, hypertension, stroke, heart transplantation, Marfan's disease, congestive heart failure. Various search systems and definitions were used to help identify sources of representations of different cardiovascular diseases. The representations of the different diseases were considered separately. The Common Sense Model was used a theoretical model to outline illness perceptions and self-management in the various identified novels, films, and paintings. RESULTS Myocardial infarction followed by stroke were the most frequently detailed diseases in all three art genres. This reflects their higher prevalence. Representations ranged from biomedical details through to social and psychological consequences of the diseases. CONCLUSIONS Artistic representations of cardiovascular diseases reflect cognitions, emotions, and images of prevalent disease. These representations shape views and behaviour of ill and healthy persons regarding heart diseases. As these representations are amenable to change, they deserve further research, which may be instrumental in improving the quality of life of persons struck by cardiovascular diseases. Changing illness perceptions appears to be a method to improve self-management and thereby quality of life in patients with various cardiovascular diseases.

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艺术中的心：小说、电影和绘画中的心血管疾病。

背景技术了解疾病在各种艺术流派中的表现提供了对患者和医疗保健提供者如何看待疾病的洞察。它还可以用于加强患者护理和促进患者自我管理。方法本文回顾了小说、电影和绘画中心血管疾病的表现：心肌梗塞、动脉瘤、高血压、中风、心脏移植、马凡氏病、充血性心力衰竭。使用了各种搜索系统和定义来帮助识别不同心血管疾病的表征来源。不同疾病的表现被分开考虑。常识模型被用作理论模型来概述各种已确定的小说、电影和绘画中的疾病认知和自我管理。结果心肌梗塞其次是中风是所有三种艺术类型中最常见的详细疾病。这反映了他们较高的流行率。表现形式从生物医学细节到疾病的社会和心理后果。结论 心血管疾病的艺术表现反映了流行疾病的认知、情绪和图像。这些表现塑造了健康人和病人对心脏病的看法和行为。由于这些表征易于改变，因此值得进一步研究，这可能有助于改善心血管疾病患者的生活质量。改变对疾病的看法似乎是一种改善自我管理的方法，从而改善各种心血管疾病患者的生活质量。