Is Grossarth-Maticek's coronary-prone type II an independent predictor of myocardial infarction?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1231-1242

  Smedslund, Geir ^a   Rundmo, Torbjørn ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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EID: 0346873920     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00067-7     Document Type: Article

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