Hostility and the heart: It's the hostility in type A personality that matters, but which element of hostility?

BMJ

Volumn 315, Issue 7105, 1997, Pages 379-380

  Whiteman, Martha C ^a   Fowkes, F Gerald R ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TYPE A BEHAVIOR; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGGRESSION; CORONARY DISEASE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; TYPE A PERSONALITY;

EID: 0031575161     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7105.379     Document Type: Editorial

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