Coronary Heart Disease, Chronic Inflammation, and Pathogenic Social Hierarchy: A Biological Limit to Possible Reductions in Morbidity and Mortality

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 609-619

  Wallace, Rodrick ^a,b,d   Wallace, Deborah ^a,c   Wallace, Robert G ^a,d  

^a New York State Psychiatric Institute ^*

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d PISCS Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

American Apartheid; Coronary heart disease; Hierarchy; Immune cognition; Punctuated equilibrium; Racism; Vascular inflammation; Wage slavery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COGNITION; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STRESS;

ACCULTURATION; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; PREJUDICE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOCIOBIOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 2342418238     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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