A meta-Analysis of spurious associations between type D personality and cardiovascular disease endpoints

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 136-137

  De Voogd, Jacob N ^a,b   Sanderman, Robbert ^a   Coyne, James C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; LETTER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PERSONALITY;

EID: 84863983111     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-012-9356-7     Document Type: Letter

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