The relationship between personality, socio-economic factors, acute life stress and the development, spontaneous conversion and recurrences of acute lone atrial fibrillation

Europace

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 211-220

  Mattioli, Anna Vittoria ^a   Bonatti, Silvia ^a   Zennaro, Mauro ^a   Mattioli, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute stress life; Atrial fibrillation; Conversion; Psychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVERSION; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFE EVENT; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SINUS RHYTHM; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COFFEE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 18144402839     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eupc.2004.02.006     Document Type: Article

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