Phobic anxiety, depression, and risk of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with coronary heart disease

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 651-656

  Watkins, Lana L ^a,b   Blumenthal, James A ^a   Davidson, Jonathan R T ^a   Babyak, Michael A ^a   McCants, Charles B ^a   Sketch Jr , Michael H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Coronary disease; Phobic anxiety; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROWN CRISP PHOBIC ANXIETY SCALE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PHOBIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SUDDEN DEAFNESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NORTH CAROLINA; OBESITY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 33749024142     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000228342.53606.b3     Document Type: Article

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