Is post-traumatic stress disorder related to development of heart disease?

Future Cardiology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-156

  Kubzansky, Laura D ^a   Koenen, Karestan C ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Coronary heart disease; Post traumatic stress disorder; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC STRESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MANAGED CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 33947647297     PISSN: 14796678     EISSN: 17448298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/14796678.3.2.153     Document Type: Article

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