Women and non-cardiac chest pain: Gender differences in symptom presentation

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 287-293

  Carmin, Cheryl N ^a   Ownby, Raymond L ^b   Wiegartz, Pamela S ^a   Kondos, George T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Coronary heart disease; Gender; Non cardiac chest pain; Symptom

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CORONARY RISK; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53249086186     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-008-0021-x     Document Type: Article

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