Modeling relationships among socioeconomic status, hostility, cardiovascular reactivity, and left ventricular mass in African American and White children

Health Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 140-150

  Gump, Brooks B ^b   Matthews, Karen A ^c   Räikkönen, Katri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cardiovascular reactivity; Children; Hostility; Left ventricular mass; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIAC VOLUME; CHILD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0032999882     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.18.2.140     Document Type: Article

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