Associations among behavior, personality, and traditional risk factors for coronary heart disease: A study at a primary health care center in mid-Norway

Psychological Reports

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 505-517

  Espnes, Geir Arild ^a   Opdahl, Arne ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; NORWAY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; TYPE A BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; NORWAY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TYPE A PERSONALITY;

EID: 0033201758     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1999.85.2.505     Document Type: Article

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