The article presents the results of empirical research studying the way the patients of the cardiology department of a city clinical hospital go through the state of anxiety. The theoretical study is based on the analysis of domestic and foreign psychological literature on the problems of anxiety and being alarmed as factors influencing the psycho-emotional state of patients with cardiac diseases of different etiologies and staying in a hospital within the surgical and conservative treatment.

anxiety, being alarmed, craniological patients, heart diseases, ischemic heart disease, arterial hypertension

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