Effect of Marital Quality on Eight-Year Survival of Patients With Heart Failure

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1069-1072

  Rohrbaugh, Michael J ^a   Shoham, Varda ^a   Coyne, James C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART PROTECTION; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROSIS; OPTIMISM; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF EFFICACY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33749261235     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.05.034     Document Type: Article

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