PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS AND FATAL HEART ATTACK: THE ATHENS (1981) EARTHQUAKE NATURAL EXPERIMENT

The Lancet

Volumn 321, Issue 8322, 1983, Pages 441-444

  Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Zavitsanos, Xenophon ^a   Katsouyanni, Klea ^a   Tzonou, Anastasia ^a   Dalla Vorgia, Panagiota ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; ETIOLOGY; HEART; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; STRESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANXIETY; CORONARY DISEASE; DEATH, SUDDEN; DISASTERS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; NATURAL DISASTERS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0020696936     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(83)91439-3     Document Type: Article

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