Pet ownership, social support, and one-year survival after acute myocardial infarction in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST)

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 76, Issue 17, 1995, Pages 1213-1217

  Friedmann, Erika ^a,b   Thomas, Sue A ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b New Life Directions ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCAINIDE; FLECAINIDE; MORACIZINE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; DEPRESSION; DOG; DRESSLER SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CATS; CLINICAL TRIALS; DOGS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0028789887     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)80343-9     Document Type: Article

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