Life Adjustment Postmyocardial Infarction: Determining Predictive Variables

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 137, Issue 12, 1977, Pages 1680-1685

  Stern, Melvin J ^a   Pascale, Linda ^a   Ackerman, Anne ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEART; HEART INFARCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEX BEHAVIOR; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0017585809     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1977.03630240016009     Document Type: Article

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