Marital Status, Marital Quality, and Atherosclerotic Burden in Postmenopausal Women

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 952-962

  Gallo, Linda C ^a   Troxel, Wendy M ^b   Kuller, Lewis H ^c   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^c   Edmundowicz, Daniel ^b   Matthews, Karen A ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Calcification; Marriage; Stress; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AORTA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE;

EID: 0346726021     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PSY.0000097350.95305.FE     Document Type: Article

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