Commentary: Type A behaviour and heart disease: No less inscrutable in Japan

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1406-1407

  Gallacher, John ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE;

AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COGNITION; COMPETENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRRITABILITY; JAPAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TYPE A BEHAVIOR;

CORONARY DISEASE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TYPE A PERSONALITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 57349101414     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn187     Document Type: Article

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