Prognostic value of type D personality compared with depressive symptoms

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 431-432

  Denollet, Johan ^a   Pedersen, Susanne S ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TYPE D PERSONALITY;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 40449114130     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2007.120     Document Type: Letter

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