Effects of hostility on platelet reactivity to psychological stress in coronary heart disease patients and in healthy controls

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 143-149

  Markovitz, Jerome H ^a,c   Matthews, Karen A ^a   Kiss, Joseph ^a,b   Smitherman, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Central Blood Bank   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

aspirin; hostility; platelet activation; psychological; stress

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA THROMBOGLOBULIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPYRIDAMOLE; NITRATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORADRENALIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STRESS; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; TYPE A BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029929447     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-199603000-00008     Document Type: Article

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