Positive Psychological Attributes and Cardiac Outcomes: Associations, Mechanisms, and Interventions

Psychosomatics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 303-318

  DuBois, Christina M ^a   Beach, Scott R ^a,b   Kashdan, Todd B ^c   Nyer, Maren B ^a,b   Park, Elyse R ^a,b,d   Celano, Christopher M ^a,b   Huffman, Jeff C ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; INTERLEUKIN 6;

AGGRESSION; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BODY MASS; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EATING; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FORGIVENESS; HAMILTON SCALE; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; LIFE ORIENTATION TEST REVISED; LIFE SATISFACTION; MEDITATION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OPTIMISM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; REVIEW; SLEEP QUALITY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL STATUS; ATTITUDE; EMOTION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SATISFACTION;

ATTITUDE; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 84868009666     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2012.04.004     Document Type: Review

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