Familial Transmissability of Early Age at Initial Diagnosis in Coronary Heart Disease (CHD): Males only, and Mediated by Psychosocial/Emotional Distress?

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-10

  Ketterer, Mark W ^a,c   Denollet, Johan ^b   Chapp, Jeanine ^a   Keteyian, Steve ^a   Farha, A J ^a   Clark, Vivian ^a   Hudson, Michael ^a   Hakim, Arif ^a   Greenbaum, Adam ^a   Schairer, John ^a   Cao, J Jane ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Behavioral genetics; Coronary heart disease; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ANGER; ANXIETY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12144289833     PISSN: 01607715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOBM.0000013640.69802.fa     Document Type: Article

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