Lessons from white coat hypertension: Comment on Spruill et al. "the impact of perceived hypertension status on anxiety and the white coat effect"

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-13

  Leventhal, Howard ^a,c   Contrada, Richard J ^a   Leventhal, Elaine A ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Medicine and Dentistry   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34748848693     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02879916     Document Type: Review

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