Social relationships and mortality in patients with congestive heart failure

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 521-527

  Murberg, Terje A ^a   Bru, Edvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Mortality; Social isolation; Social relationships; Social support

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PSYCHOSOMATICS; RISK; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NORWAY; OUTPATIENTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0034799776     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3999(01)00226-4     Document Type: Article

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