Psychological factors and coronary heart disease

ARYA Atherosclerosis

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nekouei, Zohreh Khayyam ^a   Neshatdoost, Hamidtaher ^b   Yousefy, Alireza ^c   Sadeghei, Masoumeh ^d   Manshaee, Gholamreza ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Coronary heart disease; Depression; Psychological factors; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANXIETY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84872483657     PISSN: 17353955     EISSN: 22516638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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