Psychosocial Stress, Personality, and the Severity of Chronic Hepatitis C

Psychosomatics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 100-106

  Nagano, Jun ^a   Nagase, Shoji ^b   Sudo, Nobuyuki ^b   Kubo, Chiharu ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MORALITY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; SELF REPORT;

EID: 1442349919     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.45.2.100     Document Type: Article

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