Gender, race/ethnicity, personality, and interleukin-6 in urban primary care patients

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 636-642

  Chapman, Benjamin P ^a   Khan, Ayesha ^a   Harper, Mary ^a   Stockman, Doug ^a   Fiscella, Kevin ^a   Walton, James ^a   Duberstein, Paul ^a   Talbot, Nancy ^a   Lyness, Jeffrey M ^a   Moynihan, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Extraversion; Gender differences; Interleukin 6; Primary care; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEMPERAMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NEW YORK; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 68649102015     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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