Psychological stress associated with cardiogenetic conditions

Personalized Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 631-640

  Hidayatallah, Nadia ^a,b   Silverstein, Louise B ^a   Stolerman, Marina ^a   McDonald, Thomas ^c   Walsh, Christine A ^c   Paljevic, Esma ^c,d   Cohen, Lilian L ^c,e   Marion, Robert W ^c   Wasserman, David ^a   Hreyo, Sarah ^c   Dolan, Siobhan M ^c  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiogenetic conditions; genetic testing; interdisciplinary treatment; long QT syndrome; personalized genomic medicine; psychological stress and genetic testing; sudden death

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL STRESS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SUDDEN DEATH; SUPPORT GROUP;

EID: 84909955582     PISSN: 17410541     EISSN: 1744828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/pme.14.50     Document Type: Article

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