Emotional vitality and incident coronary heart disease: Benefits of healthy psychological functioning

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1393-1401

  Kubzansky, Laura D ^a   Thurston, Rebecca C ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DOSE RESPONSE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 36849088603     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.64.12.1393     Document Type: Article

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