Type D personality is associated with the development of stress cardiomyopathy following emotional triggers

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 299-307

  Compare, Angelo ^a   Bigi, Riccardo ^b   Orrego, Pedro Silva ^c   Proietti, Riccardo ^d   Grossi, Enzo ^e   Steptoe, Andrew ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e CDI   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case control Studies; Emotional triggering; Personality traits; Stress cardiomyopathy; Type D

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877875968     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-013-9474-x     Document Type: Article

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