Socioeconomic status, hostility, and risk factor clustering in the normative aging study: Any help from the concept of allostatic load?

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 330-338

  Kubzansky, Laura D ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^b   Sparrow, David ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 0033502518     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02895966     Document Type: Article

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