Personality traits as risk factors for stroke and coronary heart disease mortality: pooled analysis of three cohort studies

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 881-889

  Jokela, Markus ^a,b   Pulkki Råback, Laura ^a   Elovainio, Marko ^c   Kivimäki, Mika ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Meta analysis; Personality; Stroke

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886972789     PISSN: 01607715     EISSN: 15733521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10865-013-9548-z     Document Type: Article

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