Personality and heart disease

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 783-784

  Steptoe, A ^a   Molloy, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONALITY; EXTRAVERSION; HEART DISEASE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPERAMENT; TYPE A BEHAVIOR; TYPE B BEHAVIOR;

HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PERSONALITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34347203724     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2006.109355     Document Type: Editorial

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