Is worrying bad for your heart? A prospective study of worry and coronary heart disease in the Normative Aging Study

Circulation

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 818-824

  Kubzansky, Laura D ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a,b,c   Spiro III, Avron ^d,e   Weiss, Scott T ^b,c,g   Vokonas, Pantel S ^d,f   Sparrow, David ^d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; coronary disease; emotion; personality; stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CORONARY RISK; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0031048296     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.95.4.818     Document Type: Article

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