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This cross-sectional study aimed to examine sex differences in the psychological distress of patients with SCAD.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>METHODS:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Adult patients diagnosed with SCAD within the past 3 years, confirmed by coronary angiography, were recruited from 6 Canadian hospitals between April 2022 and January 2025. Participants completed questionnaires assessing sociodemographics and validated measures of psychological distress: Patient Health Questionnaire-9 for depression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 for generalized anxiety, Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire for cardiac-related anxiety, and PTSD Checklist-5 for posttraumatic stress symptoms. Sex differences were analyzed using\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">t<\/jats:italic>\n                      tests for continuous variables and \u03c7\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      tests for categorical variables. Multivariable linear regression models assessed the association between sex and psychological distress, adjusting for age, pre-SCAD mental health diagnosis, and employment status.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>RESULTS:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Among 326 patients (92.9% women; mean age=53.3\u00b111.1 years), women reported higher rates of preexisting mental health conditions (29.2% versus 8.7%;\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      =0.035). Post-SCAD women reported higher mean scores than men on the Patient-Health-Questionnaire-9, Cardiac-Anxiety-Questionnaire, and PTSD Checklist-5 (all\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt;0.05). Female sex was associated with greater depressive (B=2.94;\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      =0.010), cardiac anxiety (B=7.09;\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      =0.008), and posttraumatic stress symptoms (B=5.94;\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      =0.048) after adjustment. Clinically significant symptoms were more common in women versus men: 25.1% versus 0% (depression), 21.5% versus 4.4% (anxiety), 54.8% versus 26.1% (cardiac anxiety), and 15.5% versus 0% (posttraumatic stress).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>CONCLUSIONS:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Both women and men experience clinically significant cardiac anxiety following SCAD, but women report a greater psychological burden, including more preexisting mental health conditions and twice the distress after SCAD. 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