Burden of Psychosocial Adversity and Vulnerability in Middle Age: Associations with Biobehavioral Risk Factors and Quality of Life

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1029-1037

  Steptoe, Andrew ^a   Marmot, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Psychosocial factors; Quality of life; Socioeconomic position; Stress

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MASS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIVORCE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS; SUPPORT GROUP; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP DISORDERS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0347356445     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PSY.0000097347.57237.2D     Document Type: Article

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