Alteration of type A behavior and its effect on cardiac recurrences in post myocardial infarction patients: Summary results of the recurrent coronary prevention project

American Heart Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 1986, Pages 653-665

  Friedman, Meyer ^a,b,c,d   Thoresen, Carl E ^a,b,c,d   Gill, James J ^a,b,c,d   Ulmer, Diane ^a,b,c,d   Powell, Lynda H ^a,b,c,d   Price, Virginia A ^a,b,c,d   Brown, Byron ^a,b,c,d   Thompson, Leonti ^a,b,c,d   Rabin, David D ^a,b,c,d   Breall, William S ^a,b,c,d   Bourg, Edward ^a,b,c,d   Levy, Richard ^a,b,c,d   Dixon, Theodore ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECURRENT DISEASE; THERAPY; TYPE A BEHAVIOR;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CORONARY DISEASE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RECURRENCE; TYPE A PERSONALITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0022534767     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-8703(86)90458-8     Document Type: Article

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