The association between anger-related personality trait and cardiac autonomic response abnormalities in elderly subjects

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 257, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 325-329

  Narita, Kosuke ^a   Murata, Tetsuhito ^a   Takahashi, Tetsuya ^a   Hamada, Toshihiko ^a   Kosaka, Hirotaka ^a   Yoshida, Haruyoshi ^a   Wada, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anger personality trait; Autonomic response; Heart rate variability; Intima medial thickness; Postmenopausal female subjects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CAROTID ARTERY; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

AGED; ANGER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOMEGALY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY TESTS; POSTURE;

EID: 34748817562     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-007-0724-4     Document Type: Article

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