Anger expression and risk of coronary heart disease: Evidence from the Nova Scotia Health Survey

American Heart Journal

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 199-206

  Davidson, Karina W ^a   Mostofsky, Elizabeth ^b,c  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; COOK MEDLEY HOSTILITY SCALE; CORONARY RISK; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY;

ACTING OUT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGER; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 75249104096     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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