Healthy psychological functioning and incident coronary heart disease: The importance of self-regulation

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 400-408

  Kubzansky, Laura D ^a   Park, Nansook ^c   Peterson, Christopher ^c   Vokonas, Pantel ^b   Sparrow, David ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMMUNITY LIVING; DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEPRESSION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL;

EID: 79953748726     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.23     Document Type: Article

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